[6306] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: NANOG 9 Date Change (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Tue Nov 26 10:03:59 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: srh@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 09:37:21 -0500 (EST)
Cc: djelder@accessus.net, lists@reflections.mindspring.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961126085831.18204A-100000@home.merit.edu> from "Susan R. Harris" at Nov 26, 96 09:04:00 am
> Route reflecting sounds like a good topic - could I interest any of you
> in presenting on it?
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> Susan R. Harris, Ph.D. Merit Network, Inc. srh@merit.edu
I would be willing to present, though as I said I think a separate meeting
to see what people really want is needed.
I think the issues are:
o (Briefly) The politics and technology of peering
o Easier peering between multiple parties: MLPA
o Since no NAP operator is going to enforce an MLPA, how can peering between
multiple willing parties still be made to happen with less people time
involved in the setup?
o Why might the RA not be the best tool - or why might it be?
o Possible goal:
o Participants sign a contract expressing a desire to peer with anyone
else signing the contract (not exclusively) through a route-reflecting
box.
o You can only offer routes for you and "your customers" via this. No
partial transit to specific people can be offered.
o Boxes at each interesting exchange point that people can then peer with
to effect the agreement. One or two Cisco 2501s would work fine, but
RA-type boxes which can "hide" their ASs in the middle might be
interesting as well (Peter Lothberg arguments about BGP not being
designed to 'work that way' possibly put aside).
o Filtering:
o Box-side filtering to enforce sanity?
o Concerns
o Who's going to run the thing?
o Network stability?
o What happens to control bad neighbors?
Or, perhaps a separate mailing list is needed in the interim to allow
people to discuss the issue without boring uninterested members of
the nanog list...
Avi
