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Re: Is the export policy selective under valley-free?

  • From: William Waites
  • Date: Wed Sep 03 05:30:11 2008 
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Le 08-09-03 à 11:08, Iljitsch van Beijnum a écrit :

On 3 sep 2008, at 1:45, Kai Chen wrote:

Just want to ask a direct question. Will an AS export all it gets from
its customers and itself to its providers? Or even under valley-free,
the BGP export policy is also selective?

I get the valley-free but not the selective. :-)


(guessing)

Suppose,

C1   P1
  \ /
   A
  / \
C2   P2

Suppose A has different policies for its two customers, such as, "announce
C1 routes to P1 but not P2" and "announce C2 routes to P2 but not P1"

In this case there would be valley-free paths [C1 A P2], [C2 A P1] that are
not allowed because of A's policy. Though such a policy might be unusual,
this is a case where the set of paths generated from the topology with the
valley-free rule contains paths that would not occur in reality.

I think that yes, the valley-free property is a necessary but not sufficient
criteria for generating the set of in-reality-valid paths on the Internet.

Cheers,
- -w
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