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Re: withdrawal propagation (was E.E. Times?)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Jan 13 12:25:08 1997

Date: Mon, 13 Jan 97 09:15 PST
From: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
To: "William Allen Simpson" <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu

> An implementation that propagates _extra_ withdrawals shouldn't _hide_
> behind "standards compliant".  In fact, I don't think _is_ either
> "valid" or "standards compliant".  There is no standard that says "send
> extra BGP withdrawals for routes that you are not currently announcing".
> It was just a bug in the implementation.

Nice to know you understand the cause well enough to assign blame.  Mind
telling us all what it is?

randy

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