how to proceed

Hi Daniel, Marten, and Tony,

In parallel with the work Dale, Andy and Rick have been doing
to get the routing registry database and tools in place,
we have also been following up with the extensions that we
all discussed in San Diego. So, what we were considering doing
is rolling out the minimum set (which is cast in concrete and
assures compatibility) and introducing some of the new attributes.

We thought that if we could do both things (minimum set and some
extensions) in one step, we could get some valuable feedback and
begin making iterations to improve the syntax based on the response
of the US providers.

The function of some of the extensions that we would like to rollout
are:
	a.  community syntax
	b.  expansion of the default syntax
	c.  introduce exclusion and transit syntax
	d.  syntax for AS_in and AS_out with network granularity
	e.  syntax to describe peer gateway interactions/preferences

We have almost completed documenting these ideas and want to share them
with you.  

Guess we'd really like to hear your reaction to this approach. What we
are proposing will not delay our rollout of the routing registry 
announcement, and we are very interested in making this a joint
announcment - as well as working with you to refine the extensions.

Thanks.
             --Elise 



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