call for Orlando IETF agenda items

Bob Fink rlfink@lbl.gov
Fri, 30 Oct 1998 09:28:21 -0800


Rob,

At 12:13 PM 10/30/98 -0500, Robert Rockell wrote:
>I think it is time for some sort of reccommended filter policy to be
>discussed, as most people out there (some of which who perform bad-route
>reports, yet don't filter their downstreams) are not using filters in place.
>For instance, I make the bad routing report every day in Merit's report, but
>my AS never shows up in the route's originating path). 
>I don't know if this should be added to the soon-to-be-expired
>draft-ietf-ngtrans-6bone-routing-01.tx paper, or put somewhere else, but I
>think it is time that this is more strictly enforced.
>
>Filtering via route-map on cisco products works well, but I don't know that
>it is widely implemented (Backbone experience, or other reasons). 
>
>If we are going to model the 6bone after real life, I think that this is
>going to be a crucial issue (especially if we are going to tackle the
>multi-homing problem; without filters, no one is encouraged to work on it,
>as both /48's are wandering around the backbone for a downstream in many
>instances...)

I will happily add this to the agenda, and would very much like it discussed.  I would apreciate it if you would present your ideas and background of your point of view in a short (5-10 minute) presentation.


Thanks,

Bob