Talk:Border Gateway Protocol

kvng (talk · contribs) proposed merger of Route reflector to here in May 2019. Jimmy Olano (talk · contribs) proposed merger of BGP confederation to here in August 2019 (but his edit summary seems to suggest he wanted to merge with Route reflector). Both proposals seem to have foundered for lack of any discussion. Although WP:SILENCE could be assumed to allow the merge to proceed, I notice that kvng indicated in talk that they were concentrating on improving Route reflector and may thus no longer support his/her own proposal.

I also considered removing the merge templates, but the stub nature of BGP confederation and its obvious relevance to this page makes me think the proposal was a good idea, and a merger of Route reflector may perhaps still be a good idea, despite the expanded article. Thus I am refreshing the merger discussion here and propose to leave it open one more week to see if we can gain consensus whether to merge the articles or not. Please state your preference for each article. Thanks. -- Sirfurboy (talk) 11:53, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi everybody! Hello kvng (talk · contribs)! Sorry by my mistake! Other languages for Wikipedia in English are not vinculant but I want show you, with all due respect, same article in Germany language:

1 Protokollbeschreibung
2 Anwendungsbereich
   2.1 EBGP
   2.2 IBGP
       2.2.1 Vollständige Vermaschung
       2.2.2 Route Reflector
       2.2.3 Confederation
       2.2.4 Loopbackadresse

See 2.2.2 and 2.2.3, I believe that with this is clear my position, all my efforts for create a good article. Have a nice day all of you!--Jimmy Olano (talk) 12:16, 22 January 2020 (UTC) P.S. any improve now on any three articles will be welcome; after merge we will help again for redundances, style, etc.

Thanks Jimmy, yes I think the structure on the German page makes sense. -- Sirfurboy (talk) 14:12, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

My talk comment from 2014 at Talk:Border_Gateway_Protocol#BGP_confederation_merge_proposal indicates that I would improve BGP confederation and then reassess. It looks like improvement happened, reassessment didn't. I do think a merge should be considered here and I assume the silence is because no one, myself included, has gotten around to evaluating it. We need someone to outline how it will work. The German model can't be directly applied here because we comingled EBGP and IBGP in our coverage here. ~Kvng (talk) 16:23, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks kvng. Yes, where to put the merged material needs some thought. Some possibilities:

1. We create an IBGP heading, and have subheadings at least for these two subjects and the problem of internal scalability. This involves some reorganisation.
2. We create these as sub headings of Problems and mitigation -> internal scalability. This makes minimal changes but would perhaps be an ugly solution as it would require fourth level headings.
3. We move Internal scalability out of Problems and Mitigations and perhaps rename that heading to something else. That is a halfway house that requires a small amount of restructuring, but still makes these a sub heading of "internal scalability" rather than IBGP. -- Sirfurboy (talk) 17:25, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

OK so I forgot about this too! But now I have created a proposed merge at my sandbox. I have adjusted heading levels a little so that Internal scalability is an L2 heading (heading 3) and then the merged content from Route reflector and BGP confederation are l2 headiinsg (3.1 and 3.2). If you are content with the change I will close and complete the merge. If you don't approve, perhaps we can find another way to carry out the merge. -- Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 15:43, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Pinging kvng (talk · contribs) and Jimmy Olano (talk · contribs) -- Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 07:04, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Your sandbox version looks great to me. ~Kvng (talk) 14:28, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. I also had a 'thank from Jimmy Olano so I will start work on the merge. -- Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 19:00, 5 March 2020 (UTC)