Topic: Inter-AS BGP Local Preference Matrix

Sat Oct 30 06:16:18 UTC 2010

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Matthew Petach <mpetach at netflight.com> wrote:
>> 5. All vendors should make an effort to standardize the values/value ranges offered with other vendors.
>> 6. All vendors should offer a local preference matrix to their customers, listing the changes made to a specific AS (e.g. another vendor) to aid the customer in making an intelligent routing decision for load balancing and traffic engineering in a multivendor BGP environment.
>>
>> It's obviously something that each of us would need to do individually, but I'm wondering if there is any way this could become a de facto standard, or could be a method that the community at large could enforce somehow.
>>
>
> I'm not sure what incentive there would be for the providers to
> coordinate like this;
> it would mean quite a bit more work for them, with no appreciable gain
> in revenue
> for it.

not to mention the sloshing of traffic to get to a standard... weee!