[ris-int] Re: URGENT Re: Heads up: Long AS-sets announced in the next few days
Daniel Karrenberg daniel.karrenberg at ripe.net
Fri Mar 4 09:53:25 CET 2005
On 04.03 00:55, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: > ... > I do think that Henk's message lacked finesse though. To the contrary; I consider it very appropriate and well formulated. > >I beleive you should compose a very well drafted message explaining exactly > > > > - what we are proposing to do > > - what effects we expect > > - why the effects people are concerned about will not occur > > > >and ask for comments. This message should be OKed by Henk and maybe it > >would be good to have it signed by both Henk and Lorenzo. We should do > >this relatively quickly but without loosing the "well drafted". > > I would be happy to do this if you think it stands a chance. > > The issue I fear is that people in favour or neutral to these > experiments won't reply to the thread and only a (possibly small number > of) more conservative and/or uninformed people will be quick to > criticize and opt-out. At the moment the nay-sayers have it clearly because we proposed to use their resources without their consent. > How much detail do you think we need? Do you think that to convince > people we need to describe all our algorithms (some of which we haven't > even fully developed yet), or do you think a more general description > would be enough? Exactly what I wrote: """""" - general description of the routes announced - prefixes - as paths / as sets - what do we expect to see in general terms - routing table effects - forwarding table effects - do they matter with these prefixes ? no! - concerns we have heared - c1; why it is not an issue - c2; why it is not an issue - ... Are there any other concerns? """""""" > Of course we would still provide much more detail on the principles we > want to use and how we are trying to accomplish it. That's optional but some of it may help to convince people. Daniel
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