> 'Pedro' being mentioned... Is it me? :-) Nope :)
http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-marques-idr-aggregate-00.txt Best, R. On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to add a bit more of entropy... > > As part of my PhD, I'm working on a way to reduce the Internet's core > routing tables by looking at prefixes that can be aggregated. I'm > following this discussion, because of that and I suddenly see a > 'Pedro' being mentioned... Is it me? :-) > > Best regards, > /PA > > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Robert Raszuk <[email protected]> wrote: >> Russ, >> >>> Yes. >>> >>> Sorry, but it is always true that by removing information you always >>> lose optimality (you increase stretch). Whether that removal is done at >>> the edge or in the core, the result is always the same. There are two >>> ironclad rules of routing: >>> >>> - Removing information decreases optimal routing. >> >> No. >> >> If you remove information which is redundant and when such removal >> will not result in even a single bit of sub-optimal routing what you >> wrote above is false "ironclad rule". >> >> Also the critical piece is that the determination when and what should >> be removed must be 100% automated. There is no way where manual >> intervention would be required for any scheme to work right. And your >> proposal does require manual NOC intervention as you have already >> confirmed today. >> >> The proposal from Pedro however is automated, adjust itself to >> topology changes as well as removed only redundant information where >> such removal does not impact a single bit routing optimality. >> >> Rgs, >> R. >> _______________________________________________ >> GROW mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/grow _______________________________________________ GROW mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/grow
