Controlling routing

April 1, 1997 - Reading time: ~1 minute

Why not calculate all the routes in one place? These days when "next hop shortest path / reachability" style routing is no longer correct, we need to have a central place to apply policy. The interesting thing about policy is that is has little to no place for dynamic rerouting. Policy is a force for rigidity.

It sure seems like the people working on tag switching are more interested in keeping their low-capacity switches and routers alive a little longer than in implementing policy. What the world needs is policy because policy equals differentiated billing rates. This looks like a train to me.

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