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On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Kevin Gannon wrote: > Using dynamic data for this is not going to work in BGP, so this would > have to be static information (hm, packet loss is not too static, > hopefully). Injecting dynamic data into a routing system already strained by the _static_ information is going to kill it. It is as simple as that. > Introducing "metrics" like this like this is not contrary to BGP design > philosophy: the way in which an AS selects the best route is not defined > in the RFC and the length of the AS path is certainly not the best > possible criterion. Six years ago i wrote a proposal for BGP Path Metrics: http://www.kotovnik.com/~avg/old_page/draft-bgpmetric.ps For some reason it didn't have any effect. --vadim
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