Re: [Idr] draft on virtual aggregation

[Paul Francis <francis at cs.cornell.edu>]

Its posted by IETF now.  At
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-francis-idr-intra-va-00.txt

PF


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Francis
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 12:53 PM
> To: 'idr at ietf.org'
> Subject: draft on virtual aggregation
> 
> 
> Gang,
> 
> At the following URL is a draft on virtual aggregation that I'm posting
> to IETF (it'll show up in a day or two), and which I'll present at IDR
> in Dublin.
> 
>  http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/francis/draft-francis-idr-intra-va-
> 00.txt
> 
> Title and abstract are below.  I hope to create a work item on this in
> IDR.  I would characterize this as falling under the general charter of
> scaling BGP.
> 
> Any comments and discussion on this prior to Dublin is of course
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> PF
> 
> 
> Title:  Intra-Domain Virtual Aggregation
> 
> 
>    Virtual Aggregation (VA) is a technique for shrinking the DFZ FIB
>    size in routers (both IPv4 and IPv6).  This allows ISPs to extend
> the
>    lifetime of existing routers, and allows router vendors to build
> FIBs
>    with much less concern about the growth of the DFZ routing table.
> VA
>    does not shrink the size of the RIB.  VA may be deployed
> autonomously
>    by an ISP (cooperation between ISPs is not required).  While VA can
>    be deployed without changes to existing routers, doing so requires
>    significant new management tasks.  This document describes changes
> to
>    routers and BGP that greatly simplify the operation of VA.

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