Bill Manning has slides on his laptop, but it doesn t work. The RA Route servers are coming off-line. Merit is starting the commercial service. The tools are publicly available. Two different proposals that are now under test.
Testing is underway.
It is hard to build a testbed that looks like the Internet. One proposal does do coherency. Without this, it makes it hard to really make use of route servers since they may be telling folks about routes that are not valid since the router is not reachable via layer 2. He suggests that source routing ping would provide reachability. We could add knobs to BGP for this, but Bill Manning thinks that is a bad idea.