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[Juha Heinanen <Juha.Heinanen@lohi.dat.tele.fi>]

   The stripped down BGP or IDRP should allow you to acquire (and
   maintain)  routing information only about a subset of routes
   (the one you are interested in) available at the peer (the exit router).

Yakov,

are you also proposing that hosts would run this stripped down protocol?
what bothers me here is that i would not like to complicate the hosts
that much.  

what i would like to get for the hosts is nbma arp which is very easy to
implement, scales as well as routing protocols in general do, and would
give us a fast start in true end-to-end atm connectivity for video
conferencing, etc.  

i'm afraid that, because of its complexity and problems, many nic
vendors will not implement nhrp any time soon, which leaves the users in
the dark and slows down wide scale atm deployment.  or may be that is
exactly the router vendors hope ...

-- juha