On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Matthew Petach <mpet...@netflight.com> wrote: >> 5. All vendors should make an effort to standardize the values/value ranges >> offered with other vendors. >> 6. All vendors should offer a local preference matrix to their customers, >> listing the changes made to a specific AS (e.g. another vendor) to aid the >> customer in making an intelligent routing decision for load balancing and >> traffic engineering in a multivendor BGP environment. >> >> It's obviously something that each of us would need to do individually, but >> I'm wondering if there is any way this could become a de facto standard, or >> could be a method that the community at large could enforce somehow. >> > > I'm not sure what incentive there would be for the providers to > coordinate like this; > it would mean quite a bit more work for them, with no appreciable gain > in revenue > for it.
not to mention the sloshing of traffic to get to a standard... weee!
