Re: [Idr] Benoit Claise's Discuss on draft-ietf-idr-large-community-11: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

heasley <heas@shrubbery.net> Wed, 04 January 2017 15:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idr] Benoit Claise's Discuss on draft-ietf-idr-large-community-11: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 06:52:42AM -0800, Benoit Claise:
> I see from the abstract: "The attribute is suitable for use with
> four-octet ASNs."
> I also see this text, which doesn't mention four-octet ASNs
> 
>    The Global Administrator field is intended to allow different
>    Autonomous Systems to define BGP Large Communities without
> collision.
>    This field SHOULD be an Autonomous System Number (ASN), in which
> case
>    the Local Data Parts are to be interpreted as defined by the owner
> of
>    the ASN.  The use of Reserved ASNs (0 [RFC7607], 65535 and
> 4294967295
>    [RFC7300]) is NOT RECOMMENDED.
> 
> What if the ASN is two bytes, we use padding? How?
> Even if we would say: "This field SHOULD be an four-octet Autonomous
> System Number (ASN)", it doesn't preclude inserting a two-octet ASN in
> the Global Administrator field.
> Isn't it better to specify how? 
> 
> >From RFC 6793:
> 
>    Currently assigned two-octet AS numbers are converted into
> four-octet
>    AS numbers by setting the two high-order octets of the four-octet
>    field to zero.  Such a four-octet AS number is said to be mappable
> to
>    a two-octet AS number.

The draft should just reference rfc 6793, which ISTR it once had, though
that version may not have been published.