Re: [GROW] IPR Disclosure: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd's Statement about IPR related to draft-ietf-grow-va-02

[Robert Raszuk <[e-mail]>]

Xu,

I am not talking about the draft. I am asking about the patent ?

if you are using BGP communities to carry policy information what is in
there which is novel and which requires IPR ?

Thx,
R.


> Robert,
> 
>> -----邮件原件-----
>> 发件人: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] 代表 Robert
>> Raszuk
>> 发送时间: 2010年6月25日 19:26
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>> 主题: Re: [GROW] IPR Disclosure: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd's Statement
> about
>> IPR related to draft-ietf-grow-va-02
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> I (as both individual contributor as well as co-author of VA draft)
>> fully agree with Chris that if needed simple use of BGP communities can
>> be applied within given domain to carry any form of local policy across
>> iBGP mesh - that applies to both prefix groups/lists and popular
>> prefixes using VA terminology.
> 
>> Reinventing the wheel with some other tool other then those which
>> already have been successfully used for years makes no sense to me.
> 
> Agree. Actually the auto-configuration mechanism defined in va-auto draft
> DOES use the BGP community to carry the "can-suppress" tag which determines
> whether or not the prefix should be suppressed. Hence, we are not
> reinventing the wheel, and that is why the draft is just informational,
> rather than standard track.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Xiaohu
> 
>> With this in mind I am completely not clear what such IPR filing could
>> be about. Are we discussing IPR of carrying local policy by BGP
>> communities ? That I am afraid has a decent prior art to 2007 filing.
>>
>> Many thx,
>> R.