Is this along the lines of a action-reaction matrix? Beware of the
consequences of your wishes!!!
Andrew
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Shane Kerr wrote:
> Avri Doria:
>
> > One of the issues I find myself bumping into is the difficulty folks
> > have in configuring the policies in a network in a consistent and
> > tractable way. I think this is partly due to the fact that there
> > isn't a standard model for describing the policies between ASs. There
> > is certainly a language, but no consistent model for the policies to
> > be based on. Would it be reasonable for the irtf-rr to include a
> > sub-group working on this sort of issue? I.e. a coherent model of
> > constraint policies and the networks they create.
>
> While I think improving policy description would be nice, wouldn't it
> make more sense to do away with as much of the hands-on configuration
> as possible? I'm not talking about making tools to configure routers
> from a model, but rather a routing technology that doesn't require
> constant human intervention.
>
> There are aut-num objects in the RADB with hundreds of 'import' attributes
> (check out AS4513). It's a lot to expect a human to have read these and
> verified them. And if this work is being programmaticly now, as surely
> it is, then why not include that as part of the routing technology
> itself?
>
> But maybe this belongs in the IWTF (Internet Wishful Thinking Forum).
>
> It's like HAL said: "I've seen this sort of thing before, Dave, and it
> has always been attributable to human error."
>
> Still reading RFC 1992,
> Shane
>
>
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