"Steven J. Richardson" <sjr@merit.edu> writes:
Lest anyone think that the PRDB was single-backbone-specific in _design_ or capability (it pretty much was in terms of data), let me note that, when Andy Adams and I rewrote the PRDB from a SPIRES DB to a RDBMS (with help from Tom Libert and Sue Hares), we explicitly designed in the ability to include data from other backbones.
This was initially done to support both the T1 and T3 backbones, but it could easily have supported other backbones as well.
I know that, but if I recall things correctly the concept was one of just extending the number of "backbones" (i.e. last-resort routing services) and dit not support all implementable policies between autonomous ASes in a basically arbitrary topology. Or am I wrong? Daniel