1. A method, comprising: communicating with a network operating a distributed proactive routing protocol; participating in a centralized path computation protocol; communicating routing characteristics of the distributed proactive routing protocol for the network from the network to the centralized path computation protocol; and communicating one or more computed paths from the centralized path computation protocol to the network, wherein the computed paths from the centralized path computation protocol are based on the routing characteristics of the distributed proactive routing protocol for the network.