Re: dontaing bgp config files [Re: Risk of Internet collapse grows]

[David Meyer <dmm () sprint net>]

        Ratul,

> > understanding of routing (especially inter-domain) in the research
> > community is really primitive. this precludes us from having realistic
> > routing models. we recently started working on understanding prevalent
> > inter-domain routing policies. the ultimate goal is to improve the
> > efficiency, robustness and expressiveness of routing protocols.
> > http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/networking/policy-inference/

        It is not clear if you mean that tools (e.g. BGP) are
        primitive, languages to express policy in BGP are
        primitive, or application of what we have (BGP + whatever
        language you use) is primitive.  Which is it (or which
        subset)?

        Thanks,

        Dave