as-out metrics

> Explanation understood.
> What does the peer do with this number?

	It should use it to compute the best route. But most of the routers
ignore it (or, should i say, sysadmins prefer to have static preferences!)

> Is its use defined by the protocol?
> My first impulse is to register this as
> bgp-metric: <metric> <as> ...
> since it is protocol specific and needs a specific value configured
> rhather than a relative cost.
> Is this acceptable?

	Why changing everything? ALC handle this metric
correctly, i don't see any need to create another attribute.

		lpj

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