Re: [GROW] New Version Notification for draft-ymbk-grow-bgp-collector-communities-01.txt

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Tue, 08 September 2015 15:05 UTC

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>> I do not feel comfortable overloading locally administrated bits with
>> something that represents global significance. The 64xxx communites
>> come dangerously close to codepoints we use internally. I'd prefer
>> that the local portion of BGP Communities remains truely local.
> 
> only problem is that completely blows the purpose of the exercise, a
> global tagging to help ops and researchers be more sure of what they
> are seeing in the collectors.

i think i misunderstood you.  you are suggesting using 42-44 or
whatever, not 65000 space.  sure.  i do not care what the numbers
are.

randy