Re: [Idr] AD Review of draft-ietf-idr-large-community-09

[Job Snijders <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 05:14:53PM +0000, heasley wrote:
> 0 and 4294967295 are reserved ASNs, as is 65535 and 65535 is used by
> RFC 1997 communities for well-known communities.  It is the intention
> to use 65535 if in the future it is desirable to define large
> well-known communities.  The other two should not be used because they
> are invalid ASNs and could lead to collision.  This all seems prudent
> to me.
> 
> > Assuming that you would prefer the operators NOT to use 0, 65535,
> > and 4294967295, then here’s my suggestion:
> > 
> > OLD> (Section 2)
> > 
> >    The Global Administrator field is intended to allow different
> >    Autonomous Systems to define BGP Large Communities without collision.
> >    This field SHOULD either be one of the reserved values as defined
> >    below, or an Autonomous System Number (ASN).  If it is a reserved
> >    value, then the Local Data Parts are as defined by the reserved
> >    value.  If it is an ASN then the Local Data Parts are to be
> >    interpreted as defined by the owner of the ASN.
> > 
> > NEW>
> > 
> >    The Global Administrator field is intended to allow different
> >    Autonomous Systems to define BGP Large Communities without collision.
> >    This field SHOULD be an Autonomous System Number (ASN).  The use of
> >    Reserved ASNs (0 [RFC7607], 65535 and 4294967295 [RFC7300]) is NOT
> >    RECOMMENDED.
> > 
> > …and then eliminate Section 5…
> 
> no, do not eliminate section 5.

The text that used to be section 5 is better served through a separate
document I think. Jon Mitchell and myself are working on a document to
assist in that matter. This document is not published yet.

The first sentence of section 5 was moved into the section 2. The second
sentence says what the document is _not_, and a forward looking
statement of what could happen. There is no cost to removing that if we
carry that torch over into a new document. Let me know if you want to
help work on draft-mitchell-idr-large-communities-registry.

Kind regards,

Job