Re: [Gen-art] [GROW] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-grow-bgp-gshut-11

[Job Snijders <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:56:56AM -0400, Jay Borkenhagen wrote:
> David Farmer writes:
>  > I would prefer a normative RECOMMENDED, the rest of the sentence in
>  > RFC2119, just means you should explain the constraints on the alternatives.
>  > How about something like this;
>  > 
>  > "The LOCAL_PREF value SHOULD be lower than any of the alternative
>  > paths.  A LOCAL_PREF
>  > value of Zero is RECOMMENDED, however any LOCAL_PREF value lower than all
>  > other LOCAL_PREF values used within an AS is an acceptable alternative.
>  > The LOCAL_PREF value used, Zero or otherwise, SHOULD NOT also
>  > have another use or meaning within the AS."
>  > 
> 
> 
> The LOCAL_PREF choice here is a simple thing -- don't make it more
> complicated than it needs to be.
> 
> Job's suggested text says all that's necessary:
> 
>     "The LOCAL_PREF value SHOULD be lower than any of the alternative
>     paths.  Zero being the lowest value, it MAY be used whichever
>     LOCAL_PREF values are used by the AS."

The above comes from Bruno's hand, I actually proposed the following:

    "The LOCAL_PREF value SHOULD be lower than any of the
    alternative paths. It is RECOMMEND to use 0, the lowest LOCAL_PREF
    value."

Kind regards,

Job