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Reported by Yakov Rekhter/IBM

BGP Minutes

Discussion focused on the following subjects:


  1. Collision detection in BGP.
     Yakov Rekhter presented a proposal that allows detection of such a
     such collision.
  2. Third party advertising.
     Matt Mathis suggested that BGP should be less restrictive with
     respect to what can be advertised as a next hop.  This was also
     supported by other members of the Working Group (specifically Scott
     Brim and Jeff Honig).
  3. Carrying MAC address of the next hop.
     Paul Tsuchiya proposed to either replace IP address of the next hop
     with the MAC address or to carry both IP address and MAC address of
     the next hop.
  4. Abbreviated form of an unreachable route.
     Yakov Rekhter presented a proposal from Dennis Ferguson (who was
     not present at the meeting, but posted his proposal to the IWG
     mailing list) that allows simplification (and shortening) of the
     announcement of unreachable routes.
  5. Sorting path attributes within the UPDATE message.
     Scott Brim suggested that for efficiency, path attributes within
     the UPDATE message should be sorted by attribute type.



The group agreed with items 1, 2, 4, and 5, but did not feel that
carrying MAC address (either in addition or instead of IP address) of
the next hop is desirable.  The group recommended incorporating changes
into RFC1163 to reflect items 1, 2, 4, and 5.


Yakov Rekhter agreed to generate modified text of RFC1163 that would
include these changes.  The modified document will be posted on the IWG
mailing list within a week from the meeting.



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Attendees

Scott Brim               swb@devvax.tn.cornell.edu
Ronald Broersma          ron@nosc.mil
Dino Farinacci           dino@esd.3com.com
Vince Fuller             vaf@Standford.EDU
Jack Hahn                hahn@umd5.umd.edu
Robert Hinden            hinden@bbn.com
Jeffrey Honig            jch@devvax.tn.cornell.edu
Kathleen Huber           khuber@bbn.com
Dan Jordt                danj@cac.washington.edu
Christopher Kolb         kolb@psi.com
E. Paul Love Jr.         loveep@sdsc.edu
Matt Mathis              mathis@pele.psc.edu
Yakov Rekhter            yakov@ibm.com
Paul Tsuchiya            tsuchiya@thumper.bellcore.com
Warren Vik               wmv@i88.isc.com
Jil Westcott             Westcott@BBN.COM



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