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Re: [Idr] I-D Action: draft-ietf-idr-large-community-01.txt

heasley <heas@shrubbery.net> Fri, 07 October 2016 16:24 UTC

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Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 12:48:13PM +0100, Nick Hilliard:
> Tom,
> 
> t.petch wrote:
> > Here, I would go for 'MUST be an ASN' (or else the community should not
> > be transitive:-)
> 
> Every 32 bit number is an ASN, so there's an argument to say that this
> is a tautology.
> 
> I don't think it's either viable or necessary to narrow down the text to
> specify that the global administrator field MUST be the ASN of the
> operator who assigns the community to the prefix.

Agreed.

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