Brian, This would be like real valuable to hear real ops/implementation experience.
/jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Haberman [mailto:bkhabs@;nc.rr.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 3:18 PM > To: Roy Brabson > Cc: Richard Draves; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Keith Moore; > Margaret Wasserman > Subject: Re: Node Requirements Issue 3 > > > Hi Roy, > > Roy Brabson wrote: > >>This is craziness. We (I don't mean just MS) have shipping > >>implementations that support site-locals. We have operational > >>deployments using site-locals. We have applications that work just > >>fine with site-locals. > > > > > > Could you (or someone else who has this working) publish an ID which > > describes how site-locals work? I've seen many postings on various > > aspects of site-locals which do not work as currently > defined, from DNS to > > routing to applications using site-locals in referrals. > There have been > > some proposals on how to address some of these issues, such > as updates to > > dynamic routing protocols, but others (like DNS) don't seem > to have any > > agreed upon solutions in multi-sited configurations and, > arguably in the > > case of DNS, single-sited configurations. Without > standards, or at least > > standards-track IDs, its hard to see how site-locals can be > viewed as > > useful beyond a single-site configuration, with anything > beyond that being > > experimental and/or proprietary. > > I have been meaning to write a draft on what I had to do to > routing and forwarding in order to get site-border > functionality. But, I don't think that would address the > bigger issues that have been discussed. The routing and > forwarding is complex, but it doesn't compare to some of the > other issues. > > If anyone wants to hear about what it took to get RIPng to do > site border functionality, let me know and I will put > something together. > > Brian > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List > IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng > FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng > Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
