> Thanks for the clarifications. I am still a little fuzzy about what you mean 
> by "...B to represent modifications to the policy the
> routing process uses to choose which route to present to the RIB." To use an 
> example from BGP, maybe this could mean configuring an inbound prefix list or 
> other type of policy filter. If so, then B is an interface to change the 
> configuration of the routing protocol rather than the data (e.g., Adj-RIB-In 
> contents), right? Of course, this type of configuration change affects not 
> only what the protocol sends to the RIB, but may also affect what the 
> protocol readvertises to its neighbors. 

Communities within BGP, for instance, or the metric on an OSPF route.
Yes, link state protocols would have fewer of these than BGP would --but
I think a good bit of the BGP policy model Shane wants would fit here...
(?).

:-)

Russ


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