Re: [Idr] I-D Action: draft-ietf-idr-large-community-01.txt

Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org> Wed, 05 October 2016 18:15 UTC

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> On Oct 5, 2016, at 12:17 PM, Job Snijders <job@ntt.net> wrote:
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> The "Textual Representation" section should provide any implementor with
> enough freedom to use a prefix, suffix, or a separator of their
> choosing. Given the current text:
> https://github.com/large-bgp-communities/large-bgp-communities/blob/master/draft-ietf-idr-large-community.xml#L208-L232 <https://github.com/large-bgp-communities/large-bgp-communities/blob/master/draft-ietf-idr-large-community.xml#L208-L232>
> should we change the first three "MUST" to a "SHOULD" to alleviate your
> concern?

Minor nit: RFC 1997 never uses colon-format.  1998 does.

-- Jeff