IRON vs. BGP (was Re: BGPttH. Neustar can do it, why can't we?)

Tue Oct 23 20:20:02 UTC 2012

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Templin, Fred L
<Fred.L.Templin at boeing.com> wrote:
> I realize that this is reaching way back, but you may want
> to have a look at the latest version of IRON:
>
> http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-templin-ironbis-12.txt
>
> IRON manages the internal routing systems for large virtual
> service provider networks. It deals with deaggregation and
> churn due to mobility internally, and does not expose the
> deaggregation and churn to the interdomain routing system.
>
> IRON is therefore an intradomain routing overlay network
> system, and can be used in conjunction with any interdomain
> routing system - including BGP and LISP.

someone should have brought this up in the ARMD working group...