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Re: Another suggestion for draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-12.txt

Enke Chen <enke@redback.com> Thu, 23 August 2001 22:09 UTC

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To: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@nexthop.com>
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Subject: Re: Another suggestion for draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-12.txt
In-Reply-To: Message from Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@nexthop.com> of "Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:40:19 EDT." <20010823174019.B4071@nexthop.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:05:50 -0700
From: Enke Chen <enke@redback.com>
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> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:40:19 -0400
> From: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@nexthop.com>
> To: Enke Chen <enke@redback.com>, idr@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Another suggestion for draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-12.txt
> Message-ID: <20010823174019.B4071@nexthop.com>
> References: <jhaas@nexthop.com> <20010823205102.33F87979C1@popserv2.redback.com> <20010823173538.A4071@nexthop.com>
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> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 05:35:38PM -0400, Jeffrey Haas wrote:
> > But what happens when we add the Next Greatest Thing that we also want
> > to stuff as much as possible in the path attributes?
> > 
> > "Should" still lets us do this.
> 
> That didn't come out right.
> 
> "Should" would still let us reorder things, but only if the implementor
> wanted to.

That seems to be equivalent to "optional" that I was suggesting.

In any case it is ok as long as the attribute ordering is not required,
even if the text is not fixed in the spec.. We probably have spent more
time than necessary on this thread.

-- Enke

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