User talk:RobTX

August 2022
Hello, I'm Mr.weedle. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Multiprotocol BGP, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Mr.weedle (talk) 02:55, 24 August 2022 (UTC)


 * I don't think you made a mistake as you are simply holding me accountable to cite sources which, as a first-time reviser, I admittedly didn't do much of a good job in that respect. I will pull together sources and examples for much of what I have added, albeit most of it will be with a Cisco perspective as that is what my background is.  I expect others may refute some details from the perspective of another equipment vendor and that is fine where there are differences in how vendors implemented a feature or protocol.  Principally, I ventured into this territory, as I mentioned in my update note, because I feel that calling MBGP or MP-BGP by the phrase "Multicast BGP" is either a dated phrasing which was possibly always incorrect, but that with the 2022 real world uses of MP-BGP, using it to carry multicast traffic is such a small percentage of what MP-BGP is used to accomplish.  I think it would be fine in a linked page centering on Multicast to reference that MP-BGP is a component to exchanging multicast topology information across domains, but on a page about MP-BGP to make multicast such a central focus seems to overlook most of the benefits of MP-BGP and, more importantly to me, may send someone brand new to the concept off into the world with incorrect terminology or just an overly-narrow scope of the capabilities of MP-BGP.  Put another way, MP-BGP is such a small part of many Multicast discussions though Multicast is an even smaller part of many MP-BGP discussions.  Of course, others focused on Multicast may be arriving at this page with a different lived experience.  Thank you for keeping me honest! RobTX (talk) 03:13, 24 August 2022 (UTC)