Re: routing meltdown

Jon,

Perhaps "policies, procedures & data" is a better word than "protocols" used in the generic sense.

I want to route things differently based on the time of day, whether or not a particular network is seeing heavy traffic, and what my horoscope said today. I can implement this much more easily on a workstation where I have source code than I can convince Cisco to implement it.

I wonder how many ISP operations have a requirement to support internet-wide routing based on such factors as traffic load or your horoscope. Let me personally assure you that if there will be enough demand, then there will be enough supply. Yakov.