[83873] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Order of ASes in the BGP Path
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Jakma)
Mon Aug 29 21:13:15 2005
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:10:49 +0100 (IST)
From: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
Reply-To: paul@clubi.ie, nanog@nanog.org
To: Tom Sanders <toms.sanders@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Tom Sanders wrote:
> This is one thing that i have always been aware of but dont see it
> mentioned in the BGP draft which can be quite confusing to the
> newbies. Is it possible to explicitly mention this in
> draft-ietf-idr-bgp-26.txt?
Impossible given draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-26 is in the RFC Editor Queue.
However, the IDR have a working document to update the definition of
AS_PATH, draft-ietf-idr-as4bytes-10, so might feasible to have
clarifying text put in. Ask on IDR.
regards,
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