Re: [Idr] Inter-operable BGP implementations - Call for information

[Curtis Villamizar <curtis at fictitious.org>]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405220357130.8256-100000 at netcore.fi>, Pekka Savola w
rites:
> On Fri, 21 May 2004, Susan Hares wrote:
> > All issues from RFC 2026 are covered
> > in that document. 
> 
> Not quite.  RFC2026 requires *both* implementation and
> interoperability of 'functionally equivalent or interchangeable
> components'.  The document just describes implementation in
> excruciating detail (good! :).
> 
> Even though implementations are known to interoperate in general, I 
> don't think anyone has made a question-by-question interoperability 
> test .. which, depending on how you interpret RFC2026 language, could 
> be required.


Sounds to me more like Corperation for Open Sytems (or or whatever
they were called) that the IETF.

I don't think we're going to arrive at any sort of provable
correctness.

Maybe we should look at what OSPF did.

Curtis

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