[99211] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Route table growth and hardware limits...talk to the filter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Sep 10 05:11:50 2007
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:40:29 +0530
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Tony Li <tli@cisco.com>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <ABD778D0-F4E9-4BFE-B258-809C4C69C706@cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Despite Tim's comment, this is not the result of "non-standard"
> policy languages. In fact, it's the result of truly expressive
> policy languages.
i am less sure of that. tim's metarouting algebras do not seem to lack
expressiveness. they just allow us to define policy languages that do
not let us express stupid things.
> Any language that forces all of us to make globally consistent
> choices is not going to mandate aligned policies, which is going to
> necessarily result in deeply restricted systems.
i am not sure global consistency requires global homogeneity. it is more
likely to require some visibility/transparency which maybe the folk
doing partial-reveal crypto have a leg on.
but, interesting as this is, i fear we have drifted a bit afield from
describing hacks to allow us more control of what moves from our ears to
our ribs and then what fibs we tell.
randy
