[6070] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why doesn't BGP...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Zeeff)
Sun Nov 10 12:21:14 1996
From: jon@branch.net (Jon Zeeff)
To: wsimpson@greendragon.com (William Allen Simpson)
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 12:10:02 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <2175.wsimpson@greendragon.com> from "William Allen Simpson" at Nov 9, 96 10:03:50 pm
Sounds much like pathalias from the uucp days :-).
> > expired) regarding BGP metrics -- the idea was to have a vector of
> > metrics (one per AS hop) instead of a single scalar metric; and allow
> > network operators to calculate weighted sums to obtain the locally
> > significant scalar metrics. I.e. a network operator may decide for
> > himself how to interpret BGP metrics coming from different AS-es
> > (or by different paths).
I agree that the current "routing has no relation to congestion"
situation can and should be improved.
