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Re: Order of ASes in the BGP Path

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jake Khuon)
Tue Aug 30 10:07:38 2005

From: "Jake Khuon" <khuon@NEEBU.Net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-reply-to: "Stephen J. Wilcox"'s message of Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:02:18 +0100.
	     <Pine.LNX.4.44.0508301100310.1697-100000@server2.tcw.telecomplete.net> 
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:06:09 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


### On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:02:18 +0100 (BST), "Stephen J. Wilcox"
### <steve@telecomplete.co.uk> casually decided to expound upon Abhishek
### Verma <abhishekv.verma@gmail.com> the following thoughts about "Re:
### Order of ASes in the BGP Path":

SJW> from time to time people say 'but the rfc says...'. but theres a big
SJW> place for precedent and common practice too.

True... but the latest BGP draft series attempts to address BCP and updates
on 1771.  Typically, the answers sought in light of current BGP practices
can be found in the draft.


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