Re: New ID and request for time slot

Hi Brian,

The draft-dickson-idr-second-best-backup is not yet available for
reading. I am certainly curious about whether and how it differs from
the add-paths draft -
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-walton-bgp-add-paths-05

Cheers,
Rajiv 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: idr-bounces <at> ietf.org [mailto:idr-bounces <at> ietf.org] On 
> Behalf Of Brian Dickson
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 6:47 PM
> Cc: idr <at> ietf.org
> Subject: [Idr] New ID and request for time slot
> 
> I've put together a new draft, with the (ambitious!) goal of 
> addressing 
> a few of the outstanding BGP issues:
> - wedgies
> - persistent oscillations
> - path hunting.
> 
> I've included most of the supporting examples for the first 
> two, which 
> are clearly smaller in scope.
> 
> I'll be doing more work (between now and IETF-71) to produce example 
> cases for the path hunting problem (w.r.t. the new draft).
> My hope is this can reduce the level of induced churn caused by path 
> hunting.
> 
> I'd respectfully request a slot in Philly to present this material.
> 
> Comments are obviously welcome, as well as any pointers to tools for 
> evaluating path hunting behavior.
> 
> Obviously, adding new attributes isn't something to be done 
> lightly, but 
> if the results are compelling enough, it may be an 
> appropriate path to take.
> 
> I'd appreciate it if we can first look to see if the results are 
> compelling, before getting into whether they are compelling 
> enough. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian Dickson
> 
> > A new version of I-D, 
> draft-dickson-idr-second-best-backup-00.txt has 
> > been successfuly submitted by Brian Dickson and posted to the IETF 
> > repository.
> >
> > Filename:        draft-dickson-idr-second-best-backup
> > Revision:        00
> > Title:           Enhanced BGP Capabilities for Exchanging 
> Second-best 
> > and Back-up Paths
> > Creation_date:   2008-02-05
> > WG ID:           Independent Submission
> > Number_of_pages: 20
> >
> > Abstract:
> > This Internet Draft describes an enhanced way to exchange prefix
> > information, to permit multiple copies of a prefix with different
> > paths to be announced and withdrawn.
> >
> > This negotiated capability provides faster local (inter-AS) and
> > global (intra-AS) convergence, reduces path-hunting, improves route-
> > reflector behaviour, including eliminating both persistent
> > oscillations and BGP "wedgies".
> >
> > Additional prefix instances have new optional transtive BGP
> > attributes, to control path selection.
> >
> > Withdrawl of prefixes will require path attributes.
> >
> > Benefits are seen both when deployed intra-AS, and on inter-AS
> > peering.
> > Author's Note
> >
> > This Internet Draft is intended to result in this draft or a related
> > draft(s) being placed on the Standards Track for idr.
> 
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