A June 1st meeting was held and Randy will now summarize that meeting.
Inter-provider multicast is broken.
MEDs work and is in relatively wide use.
Transitive propagation of Communities is being used, but not widely.
BGP Dampening Thresholds is not widely used in Europe. 3 Flaps to dampen are non-optimal. 4 Flaps are better for long damps and three are better for short. Dampening done for prefixes longer than /19 should probably be more aggressive than those shorter. Dampening can cause routing loops when the route is heard via multiple paths.
Some customers are multihoming without running BGP and this can cause problems.
A consistent policy does not mean that there are consistent announcements at all peering points since distances from each edge of the network to distant Ases may vary.
All good peers should filter their customers.
If folks move to route prefix filtering on all connections, then a configuration filter list will approach the size of the global routing table and is probably not practical.
The LAN model for exchanges is broken.
Some providers are showing 50 to 80% hit rates on their web-cacheing.
Bill Norton asks if this will become a document. Randy says that it is happening in IETF.