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Re: Outbound Route Optimization

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kristoff)
Mon Jan 26 10:41:31 2004

Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:40:50 -0600
From: John Kristoff <jtk@northwestern.edu>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:30:38 -0500
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> Yes, we can probably make something "better" than BGP.  But will we
> be able to understand it?

I thought this was a good measure of that question... from the current
draft-irtf-routing-reqs draft:

  2.1.17 Simplicity

     The architecture MUST be simple enough so that Radia Perlman can
     explain all the important concepts in less than an hour.

:-)

John

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