requirements draft revision

[Tony Li]

Randy,

Excellent point.  It is the _global_ distribution of policy information
that is undigestible.  Local (and therefore limited) distribution has some
hope of scalability.

Tony


Randy Bush writes:
 | [ note that i have moved this thread to the ptomain list, where at least
 |   my comment is more appropriate ]
 | 
 | i agree with most of your logic and definitely with your conclusion.  but i
 | do have one quibble.
 | 
 | > If your real requirement is to extend the policy control of the
 | > destination, then you must also accept the fact that there must be
 | > distribution about the policy requests of the destination to the transit
 | > domains.  However, distributing this information is exactly what is causing
 | > the indigestion in the routing subsystem today.
 | 
 | part of the problem is HOW it is distributed, by announcing new/different
 | prefixes, not THAT it is distributed.  i.e. we could get a bit of leverage
 | by reducing the scope of distribution a la the DO_NOT_ANNOUNCE_TO_PEERS
 | community.
 | 
 | randy