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Wed Oct 17 00:35:08 UTC 2001

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Kevin Gannon wrote:

> Using dynamic data for this is not going to work in BGP, so this would
> have to be static information (hm, packet loss is not too static,
> hopefully).

Injecting dynamic data into a routing system already strained by the
_static_ information is going to kill it.  It is as simple as that.

> Introducing "metrics" like this like this is not contrary to BGP design
> philosophy: the way in which an AS selects the best route is not defined
> in the RFC and the length of the AS path is certainly not the best
> possible criterion.

Six years ago i wrote a proposal for BGP Path Metrics:

http://www.kotovnik.com/~avg/old_page/draft-bgpmetric.ps

For some reason it didn't have any effect.

--vadim