On 11/4/23 15:28, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
My worry with the routing specialty and why I stopped doing networking myself is the reliance on diagrams by architects especially when you are dealing with a large enterprise with complex routing requirements. In some of the large enterprises I have worked in routing changes to BGP etc take a long time to get through the change control process and diagrams have to be scrutinised by many people through the chain.
Ultimately, I assume they are graph structures, and if they're represented as such, it may be feasible to write software to let you query them in meaningful and efficient ways. It would also be interesting to try GPT-4 on the diagrams. It has image recognition capability combined with a capacity to synthesize textual descriptions and to answer questions. As is well known, it can also generate false information, so one would need to appraise its output with care.