Folks, > On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > > If this is true, it's very distressing. Drafts are deleted after > > about six months. That means that any implementations will be based > > on a no longer existing specification. That's wrong in so many > > ways. > > Well, maybe that was a misunderstanding of IETF process of mine. But > AIUI, it's intended to progress towards proposed standard, and > getting implementations is part of that, in some fashion. > > The draft has been kept active by the IDR since 2001 btw. > > > I think I only felt the need to do this a handful of times over the > > last decade, but it's generally difficult to position tcpdump such > > that it will intercept the eBGP traffic. > > Ok. So that's a "not important" then. > > I'm interested in operational use of any kind of passive BGP 'reader' > btw - not just ethereal/tcpdump. (Just to make it obvious ;) ).
May I suggest that you send your opinion on this topic to the IDR mailing list (idr@ietf.org), as it would help the IDR WG to reach a (rough) consensus on how to proceed with the draft. Yakov.