soBGP deployment

Tue May 24 01:43:54 UTC 2005

> 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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