Re: [Idr] BGP Peer Groups

[David Freedman <david.freedman at uk.clara.net>]

If you look at the IOS implementation, peer-groups have been decoupled
from "update groups" which are used to group peers to which common
updates are sent.

As an end user of the implementation you can configure the members of
the peer-group but the update-group membership remains internal to the
implementation.

Since there are many different type of groups one can have (same updates
to members, same transport, same timers etc..) would be interested as to
which you refer in these notes, if you really do mean "all" then you
want to revert the behaviour described above which puts control back to
the end user again.



David.


Aleksi Suhonen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was writing an Internet-Draft on another BGP issue and I needed a
> normative reference for BGP Peer Groups, but couldn't find one. So I
> wrote one myself, because it felt like a good idea at this time:
> http://www.axu.tm/2009/draft-axu-bgp-peer-groups.html
> 
> I'm looking for:
> 
> * Support for the draft or reasons why it's a silly draft.
> * Information on any Intellectual Property Rights issues regarding it.
> * Co-Authors.
> * White papers I could add as informative references.
> * Insights from BGP implementors on things I've overlooked.
> 
> After a bit of input, I'll actually submit the draft at tools.ietf.org,
> if it still feels like a good idea.
>