[GROW] Discussion from today's WG meeting: ibgp scaling considerations

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists at gmail.com>]

Today's WG meeting brought out some contentious discussion around this
presentation. The summary for a portion of the discussion was that
local optimizations in BGP mechanisms can often lead to system wide
systemic issues. One comment was that a particular feature
(advertise-own) ends up being used in 'internet' context where it's
inappropriate. In this instance though, often the VPN providers are
also running 'internet' as a VPN, to lower capex/opex and take
advantage of their larger 'internet' platforms for smaller 'vpn'
solutions.

The discussion seemed quite contentious and like it may prove
interesting to discuss here.as well...

-Chris