Michael.Dillon wrote:

Writing RFCs is a fine way to document operational best practices, but it is not a good way to work out joint operational practices.

Seems to me that operational problem solving works better when the problem is not thrown into the laps of the protocol designers.

If the solution turns out to be joint operational practice, then operators need to be involved, natch. If the solution turns out to be protocols, then the protocol designers need to be involved along with the operators. I'm not so certain that operational practices will fix this problem - it could be argued that the fundamental vulnerabilites in the way routing info is communicated would be better fixed in the protocol. --Sandy