[81031] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: soBGP deployment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russ White)
Mon May 23 21:44:25 2005
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 21:43:54 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Russ White <ruwhite@cisco.com>
Reply-To: Russ White <riw@cisco.com>
To: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OF9DF2DED1.D7516924-ON8025700A.0058E53C-8025700A.00596A7F@radianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> It seems to me that a more workable solution in today's Internet, is to
> decouple the definition of the information exchanged by network operators
> from the protocol used to exchange the information. It should be possible
> to design a system in such a way that a network operator can choose
> whether or not to do this job directly on their BGP-speaking routers or
> whether to offload it onto some type of route-registry database system.
> In fact, it should be possible for a single AS to vary which model it
> follows because in larger networks there is less homogeneity, i.e. some
> BGP routers are far more mission critical and carry higher traffic levels
> than others.
This is specifically how soBGP is designed.
:-)
Russ
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