Re: [Idr] I-D Action: draft-ietf-idr-deprecate-as-set-confed-set-02.txt

Dear all,

It appears we now could use some running code that treats AS_SET and
AS_CONFED_SET as withdraw, or at least provides a
button/flag/knob/policy language hook to make it so!

Kind regards,

Job

On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 07:24:56PM -0800, internet-drafts@ietf.org wrote:
> 
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Inter-Domain Routing WG of the IETF.
> 
>         Title           : Deprecation of AS_SET and AS_CONFED_SET in BGP
>         Authors         : Warren Kumari
>                           Kotikalapudi Sriram
>                           Lilia Hannachi
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-idr-deprecate-as-set-confed-set-02.txt
> 	Pages           : 7
> 	Date            : 2019-11-03
> 
> Abstract:
>    BCP 172 (i.e., RFC 6472) recommends not using AS_SET and
>    AS_CONFED_SET in the Border Gateway Protocol.  This document advances
>    this recommendation to a standards requirement in BGP; it proscribes
>    the use of the AS_SET and AS_CONFED_SET types of path segments in the
>    AS_PATH.  This is done to simplify the design and implementation of
>    BGP and to make the semantics of the originator of a route clearer.
>    This will also simplify the design, implementation, and deployment of
>    various BGP security mechanisms.  This document (if approved) updates
>    RFC 4271 and RFC 5065 by eliminating AS_SET and AS_CONFED_SET types,
>    and obsoletes RFC 6472.
> 
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