Re: [Idr] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-ietf-idr-as-migration-03: (with COMMENT)
Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Thu, 19 February 2015 22:42 UTC
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Subject: Re: [Idr] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-ietf-idr-as-migration-03: (with COMMENT)
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>> This document is written by two operators, documenting the operational >> issue that makes this functionality important which in turn drove them >> to write the document. Therefore I do think that it's important to >> draw the connection between As-Path lengthening and revenue loss, as >> this is the business reality. > > i am an operator. i do not support this statement. after my first cuppa, allow me to expand. when this doc first came out, i asked, with negligible success, it be put on a radical diet. so i thought what the heck, i have bigger fish to fry. same for it's mate over in sidr, which is the one about which i care more. but it seems the iesg has reached a similar conclusion. so let me try to suggest how. we all agree the hack needs to be documented, you do not need to sell or otherwise motivate it. to accomplish x you need to do y. fertig. so get all the non technical stuff out. and i mean all. if you need to save the immortal prose, publish it as a ripe series ops doc (and if you say bcop i will puke). try a gedanken experiment of seeing how little you can say to convey the hack to the vendor and the op who has to configure it. i bet you can get it down to 3-4 pages excluding ietf boilerplate. think of it like code, the more of it there is the more room for bugs. college years our roomies were at iit architecture, the mies school. less is more. randy
- Re: [Idr] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-i… Susan Hares
- [Idr] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-ietf-… Alissa Cooper
- Re: [Idr] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-i… Alissa Cooper
- Re: [Idr] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-i… Susan Hares
- Re: [Idr] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-i… George, Wes
- Re: [Idr] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-i… Randy Bush
- Re: [Idr] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-i… Nick Hilliard
- Re: [Idr] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-i… Randy Bush
- Re: [Idr] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-i… Alissa Cooper
- Re: [Idr] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-i… Neil J. McRae