Re: Intra-AS Routing Standards

[hedrick at cs.rutgers.edu]

I think it's a bit unfair to say that inter-AS routing has been
"languishing".  It's a complex problem.  Minor mistakes can result
in intractable computations.  The people in the OSPF group put in
a lot of very good work.  The vendors involved, as well as the
maintainers of gated, have gotten implementations up with reasonable
dispatch.  I think this should be counted as an IETF success.  I'd
just like to wait for some performance results from the field before
casting it in concrete.  Who knows, maybe we'll find that some
modification to the protocol should be done before making a final
standard...