[rrg] Consensus call: Reject proposed strategy F?

[William Herrin]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Brian E Carpenter
<brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not in fact advocating a 'do nothing' strategy. On the contrary,
> I advocate that the RRG makes the best recommendations that it can.
> But I suggest that we should neither accept nor reject strategy F;
> I think we should just set it aside. It's out of our control anyway.

Hi Brian,

My worry is that by retaining strategy F, we signal that the problem
isn't ripe yet. If plain BGP is not recommended but is still
acceptable, what's the need for working groups or a concerted
engineering effort?

My thought was that strategy D, E or both should remain as controls
while F should be discarded. D involves scaling up how BGP is
processed while E involves suppressing BGP growth.

Do you want to keep F in addition to D and E, or do D and E provide a
sufficient fallback position as methods for expanding and/or
controlling BGP?

Regards,
Bill Herrin




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