Paul,
Maybe the NANOG conference committee (or whatever its called) could get a couple of major router vendor gerbils to come to the next NANOG and talk to this issue?
Maybe?
Okay, I give up.
Recently I've been involved in some issues such as this working with Alcatel Lucent and Cisco to jointly test how their routing protocols interact with each other. As I think you try to point out, it was like herding cats, pushing jelly up the wall, mowing the lawn with scissors etc. However one of the aspects that came out of this was that it required some changes by service providers. Burgess from the RTG at Cisco has commited to working with me and Alcatel to put together a presentation on this for the NANOG community (hopefully it would be something that the PC would be interested in). I doubt this will be ready for the next meeting but should be for the one after. If we allow vendors just to throw in the towel on these issues then its the service provider community to blame. In my view we have bit by bit step by step ended up in a very dark place. With our entire planet now completely reliant on Internet and Data networks its time for action. Regards, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae -- Alive and Kicking. neil@DOMINO.ORG