Re: [RAM] Number of DFZ routers - radical improvement of BGP unlikely

[jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)]

    > From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch at muada.com>

    > The question is whether it would be easier to replace it. So far, I
    > can't think of anyone else other than myself speaking out in favor of
    > that, or even entertaining the question seriously. :-)

Really? :-)

    > Obviously a new protocol would have to be able to interact with BGP and
    > be not much worse at talking BGP than a native speaker.

Well, "interact with BGP" and "talk BGP" sound like two very different things
to me - unless by "talk BGP" you mean "emulate a BGP speaker".

The thing is that if you have a system with a fundamentally different model
of the world (e.g. map-based, instead of route-table based), the interface
between it and BGP is necessarily going to be something of a kludge, and any
emulation is perforce going to be be something less than stellar.

	Noel

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