Re: Modification of RIPE-181's as-in/as-out attributes

[Curtis Villamizar <]

In message <199510311942.AA07667@localhost, Cengiz Alaettinoglu writes:
> 
> I like this idea. There is only one problem that I see with it. The
> as numbers in as-in and as-out lines are often used (by tools like
> prpath and prtraceroute) to deduce the topology of the Internet. If an
> AS only specifies a policy like:
> 
> aut-num: AS2
> as-in: from (NOT AS1) 5 accept ANY
> 
> then prpath has no way of deducing the neighbors of AS2.

Doesn't that deduction belong in the inet-rtr ifaddr and peer lines?

> aut-num: AS2
> neighbor-list: AS3, AS4, AS5, AS1      # pehaps with router addresses?

This is reasonable for AS that don't provide inet-rtr records for
their routers (I suspect most).

Curtis