Re: [Idr] IETF LC for IDR-ish document <draft-ietf-grow-bgp-reject-05.txt> (Default EBGP Route Propagation Behavior Without Policies) to Proposed Standard

Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> Thu, 20 April 2017 13:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idr] IETF LC for IDR-ish document <draft-ietf-grow-bgp-reject-05.txt> (Default EBGP Route Propagation Behavior Without Policies) to Proposed Standard
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> On Apr 20, 2017, at 5:40 AM, <bruno.decraene@orange.com> <bruno.decraene@orange.com> wrote:
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> The document is asking network operators which have correctly configured their network to retrofit the configuration of 1000s of EBGP configurations, in order to accommodate some operators which are not capable of correctly configuring their EBGP session.
> Plus the solution is asking those later operators to do a configuration, while the assumption is that they can't be trusted to correctly configured their EBGP session. Why do you think that they won't just copy/past 1 additional line of configuration in order automatically distribute all the routes for each new EBGP session?

My goal isn’t perfection, but improvement.  There will always be people who do nonsensical things, this is an attempt to address those doing it unintentionally :-).

- Jared