Re: [Gen-art] [OPSAWG] Genart early review of draft-ietf-opsawg-ipfix-bgp-community-04

[Randy Bush <[e-mail]>]

> Let me try to explain it clearly in simple words again. BGP community
> attributes, such as standard community, extended community, large
> community, have already been defined by IDR working group. Operaters
> use those already defined BGP communities in their field networks with
> their own plans to represent the groups of customers, peers,
> geographical and topological regions. For example, using standard
> community XXX to represent fixed line customers, YYY for WLAN
> customers, and ZZZ for mobile customers, using community AAA for state
> L, BBB for state M, CCC for state N. Now we want to know the traffic
> generated by the WLAN customer in state N. So we need the community
> information related to the traffic flow exported by IPFIX. If IPFIX
> can export BGP community information using the IEs introduced in my
> doc, the IPFIX collector, without running BGP protocol, can easily
> figure up the traffic in BGP community granularity, i.e. the traffic
> from different customers, from different states, from different
> customers in different states, and so on.

to help readers, perhaps this flavor explanation belongs in the
introduction, or a rationale section?

randy