Re: advisory attribute in IRR

["Kevin Oberman" <oberman () es net>]

The advisory field dates back to the old NSFnet. It was used there (and later
by ANS) to determine the appropriate carrier to whom a packet would be given 
after the death of the PRDB and before routing policies were well established 
in the fullness of BGP4. I believe ANS stopped using this field some time ago 
and we stopped worrying about it. I believe the field is as dead as ASS690 
will be in a week or two (or maybe already is).

-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman () es net                       Phone: +1 510 486-8634


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