30 Jan
2006
30 Jan
'06
9:55 a.m.
Perhaps people should stop trying to have these operational discussions in the IETF and take the discussions to NANOG where network operators gather.
We have tried, of course; see, for example, NANOG 28 (Salt Lake City). There was no more consensus at NANOG than in the IETF...
One attempt almost 3 years ago, doesn't sound very serious to me. And if the discussion is only concerned with seeking consensus on implementing a new flavor of BGP protocol then it isn't much of a discussion. In fact, there was a consensus at Salt Lake City that the issues of routing security could be adequately dealt with by existing tools and protocols. Not all problems require new protocols to solve them. --Michael Dillon