On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 07:45:24AM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
> directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Global Routing Operations Working Group of 
> the IETF.
> 
> 
>       Title           : BGP Monitoring Protocol
>       Author(s)       : J. Scudder, et al.
>       Filename        : draft-ietf-grow-bmp-04.txt
>       Pages           : 16
>       Date            : 2010-06-14
> 
> This document proposes a simple protocol, BMP, which can be used to
> monitor BGP sessions.  BMP is intended to provide a more convenient
> interface for obtaining route views for research purpose than the
> screen-scraping approach in common use today.  The design goals are
> to keep BMP simple, useful, easily implemented, and minimally
> service-affecting.  BMP is not suitable for use as a routing
> protocol.
> 
> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-grow-bmp-04.txt
> 

I'm wondering why it is necessary to have a new way of dumping tables and
updates. IMO the MRT format is a very well known and accepted format.
There are existing parser libraries and many bgp implementations already
support this format.
Wouldn't it be better to make a joined effort to merge MRT and BMP?

-- 
:wq Claudio
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