Re: [Idr] Request to adopt draft-heitz-idr-large-community

[Job Snijders <[e-mail]>]

Hi David,

On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 05:37:31PM -0500, David Farmer wrote:
> As an operator and someone involved in RIR policy, I support this and
> most any solution that provides usable communities for 4-byte ASNs.
> 
> However, communities for 4-byte ASNs are not a new issue and there
> have been several solutions proposed over the past couple years.  The
> blocking issue seems to have been implementations, or the lack of
> them.

You make a valid point. Without implementations this thread is worthless.

I have hope that this time around it'll be different: the specification
is so simple it is almost in-excusable to not implement it. Having no
extendability is also a feature: there will be no suprises, what is
written down is what it is.

I'm tracking implementations here: http://largebgpcommunities.net/implementations/ 
(and ofcourse in the RFC7942 section of the draft). I rely on what
people tell me, but you are probably best off to engage with your
vendors directly.

I encourage implementors to state whether this is on the roadmap and
what the ETAs will be for GM releases (if they are known yet).

Kind regards,

Job