Re: [Idr] draft-dong-idr-node-target-ext-comm-05.txt - WG Adoption and IPR call (9/27 to 10/11/2022)

[Robert Raszuk <[e-mail]>]

Hi Jeff,

Sure I was not asking exactly what you do in your gig. I was looking for a
general description. Perhaps more of interest to GROW WG then here.

IMHO targeting subset of BGP speakers with routing related data can safely
work only in a few very specific cases. And even then this to me is more of
mgmt task.

Thx,
R.

On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 6:03 AM Jeff Tantsura <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> Robert,
>
> I’m not at liberty to discuss any operational practices we employ…
> As you can imagine - any such routing change involves route tagging and a
> number of a rather complex policies; in highly symmetrical topologies,
> uniform route distribution is just fine, however in case of a catastrophic
> failures (especially in case of limited optical availability) ability to
> target a subset of BGP speakers could be advantageous.
>
> Cheers,
> Jeff
>
> On Oct 13, 2022, at 10:51, Robert Raszuk <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi Jeff,
>
> > sometimes i need to move GWs of capacity from one region to another
>
> Can you elaborate a bit how exactly are you going to do that
> with node-target-ext-comm ?
>
> What exactly are you going to advertise from where to where to move "GWs
> of capacity" between regions ?
>
> Thx,
> R.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 5:31 PM Jeff Tantsura <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
>
>> Gert,
>>
>> As much as I think policy distribution should be separated from
>> reachability, post FS, LS and all the SR related stuff, this is hardly a
>> correct statement anymore.
>> Looking at my toolset (sometimes i need to move GWs of capacity from one
>> region to another) - this would be a very useful addition.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jeff
>>
>> > On Oct 13, 2022, at 04:13, Dongjie (Jimmy) <jie.dong=
>> [e-mail]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Gert,
>> >
>> > Thanks for your comments.
>> >
>> > The proposed mechanism can be used to control the distribution of BGP
>> routes to a set of BGP nodes in the network. One specific node is a
>> possible use case, while not the only one.
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Jie
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Idr [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Gert Doering
>> >> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2022 3:02 PM
>> >> To: [e-mail]
>> >> Cc: Susan Hares <[e-mail]>; idr@ietf. org <[e-mail]>; Van
>> De
>> >> Velde, Gunter \(Nokia - BE/Antwerp\) <[e-mail]>
>> >> Subject: Re: [Idr] draft-dong-idr-node-target-ext-comm-05.txt - WG
>> Adoption
>> >> and IPR call (9/27 to 10/11/2022)
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 03:22:07PM +0800, [e-mail]
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>    I support the adoption of the draft. It is useful when we need
>> notify
>> >> some specific node in the network by using BGP.
>> >>
>> >> BGP is really not a signalling tool "send information to one specific
>> node".
>> >>
>> >> Gert Doering
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