On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com> wrote:
5. All vendors should make an effort to standardize the values/value ranges offered with other vendors. 6. All vendors should offer a local preference matrix to their customers, listing the changes made to a specific AS (e.g. another vendor) to aid the customer in making an intelligent routing decision for load balancing and traffic engineering in a multivendor BGP environment.
It's obviously something that each of us would need to do individually, but I'm wondering if there is any way this could become a de facto standard, or could be a method that the community at large could enforce somehow.
I'm not sure what incentive there would be for the providers to coordinate like this; it would mean quite a bit more work for them, with no appreciable gain in revenue for it.
not to mention the sloshing of traffic to get to a standard... weee!