Re: [Idr] Why do we define so many communities for BGP

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Wed, 09 November 2016 02:06 UTC

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> It is healthy for the IETF that ideas can compete with each other.

that's what we say until somebody competes with our draft :-)/2