Re: [Idr] WG LC on draft-ietf-idr-large-community-03.txt (10/17/2016 to 10/31/2016)

Job Snijders <job@ntt.net> Thu, 20 October 2016 22:50 UTC

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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 17:50:04 -0500
From: Job Snijders <job@ntt.net>
To: "Jakob Heitz (jheitz)" <jheitz@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: [Idr] WG LC on draft-ietf-idr-large-community-03.txt (10/17/2016 to 10/31/2016)
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Hi Jakob,

I am not sure what issue this replacement resolves. With the replacement
text in the document I feel I have more questions than answers.

Usually a community is intended to be sent to one AS to trigger an
action, and to multiple ASes if the community is of informative nature.
We know we can attach multiple Large BGP Communities to a route, because
of the variable length of the attribute.

In an earlier response I pointed at text that addresses this specific
feature already in the current text: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/idr/_QULjIUDaBB4JqDR8IXuIYkAVJw

Kind regards,

Job


On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 10:13:41PM +0000, Jakob Heitz (jheitz) wrote:
> In addition, to deal with the values for the GA field, we will replace
> 
>    The Global Administrator field is intended to allow different
>    Autonomous Systems to define Large BGP Communities without collision.
> 
> with
> 
>   A Large Community that is intended to be sent to multiple ASes
>   SHOULD contain an ASN in the Global Administrator field. The ASN
>   SHOULD be one that is assigned to the entity that defines the
>   meaning of the rest of the Large Community.  This allows a route to
>   carry multiple Large Communities, the meaning of each being defined
>   by different independent entities.