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Re: Why doesn't BGP...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Sun Nov 10 15:16:06 1996

Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 11:47:14 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu, wsimpson@greendragon.com

William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com> wrote:

>Wasn't there a draft somewhere along the way on a global guidelines on
>how to set the metrics?

I remeber seeing something like that.  However i went further by
explicitly separating per-hop metrics into static (administrative)
and dynamic (injected from IGP) parts, with an explicit visibility
scope for the dynamic part.

> If there's any interest i can dig the draft out and place it on my www
> server.
>
>Sure.

Ok, it is in http://www.pluris.com/avg/draft-bgpmetric.ps and .txt.

--vadim

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