BGP4 path attribute (sorry)

Folks,
        Forget about my previous message.  I did  not  intend  to
        send  all  this  stuff  to  the  list,  but just the last
        paragraph.  Sorry again,
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Jean-Michel

	   Another  point:  the  previous  drafts   of   BGP4   were
	   introducing  a  "BGP  path  attribute"  which was carried
	   together with the route.  In some  recent  extensions  of
	   Ripe-81,  and  after some discussions with Peter Lothberg
	   and Tony Bates, it appeared to us that this could be used
	   to   "color"   network   advertisements  and  carry  this
	   information thru the  Internet.  Any  reason  why  you've
	   dropped the idea ?

Yes, it tends to break aggregation.  Since you can't aggregate colored
routes together, it would cause people to not aggregate.  This would
increase the size of the routing tables.

Tony
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Jean-Michel