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Re: [GROW] Limiting AS path length?

William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> Thu, 19 September 2019 15:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [GROW] Limiting AS path length?
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On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 11:37 AM Job Snijders <job@instituut.net> wrote:

> Limiting the AS_PATH length - from an IETF RFC publication process in
> context of providing operational guidance, probably shouldn’t be “limit the
> path length to avoid vendor bugs”.
>
> Instead, the guidance perhaps should be “please report and fix bugs”,
> right? :-)
>

Hi Job,

"Don't poke the bear," is generally good advice. When we have sufficient
reason to believe a particular behavior is error-prone, we should
discourage that behavior. Regardless of whose "fault" it is.

AND we should encourage folks to report and fix bugs.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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