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MPLS and IS-IS

  • From: Ben Black <ben@layer8.net>
  • Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 10:30:19 -0700
  • Cc: mpls@UU.NET
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On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:28:34AM -0600, Danny McPherson wrote:
> 
> > I do believe the "perception" goes a little bit beyond implementation only
> > issues.
> 
> I don't completely follow you here.  Are you suggesting that implementation
> difficulty alone makes the OSPF routing protocol itself less scalable?  While
> they're indeed related, they're still very separate things.
> 

An overly complex design will almost certainly result in more difficult
implementation.  More difficult implementations generally give rise to
more bugs.  I believe there is a strong correlation between protocol
design quality and implementation quality and simply dismissing that
relationship seems rather ivory towerish.


Ben