Re: [Idr] [Re: Idr] I-D Action: draft-ietf-idr-bgp-extended-messages-31.txt

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Tue, 02 July 2019 01:05 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idr] [Re: Idr] I-D Action: draft-ietf-idr-bgp-extended-messages-31.txt
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> Apologies for being late in the review cycle of this document.  But I
> have a basic question about the BGP capability defined in Sect 3:
> 
> --
>    By advertising the BGP Extended Message Capability to a peer, a BGP
>    speaker conveys that it is able to send, receive, and properly
>    handle, see Section 4, BGP Extended Messages.
> --
> 
> The text “… to send” does not seem to be necessary, and the spec would
> be simpler and cleaner without it.
> 
> IMO the capability should be about “receiving” only. As long as a BGP
> speaker is able and willing to receive large messages (by advertising
> the capability), its neighbor would be allowed to send such messages
> to the speaker. It really does not matter whether the speaker is able
> / willing / need to send any large messages to its neighbors.  (Of
> course certain “Operational” considerations still apply, especially
> for IBGP, as discussed in the document.)
> 
> What do folks think?

we weny around this at least twice during the wg process.  there was a
dislike of the possibility of extended messages being unidirectional,
error reporting, etc.

but i have no dog in this fight

randy