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Re: Outbound Route Optimization


From: John Kristoff <jtk () northwestern edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:40:50 -0600


On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:30:38 -0500
Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

Yes, we can probably make something "better" than BGP.  But will we
be able to understand it?

I thought this was a good measure of that question... from the current
draft-irtf-routing-reqs draft:

  2.1.17 Simplicity

     The architecture MUST be simple enough so that Radia Perlman can
     explain all the important concepts in less than an hour.

:-)

John


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