Re: [Idr] Request to adopt draft-heitz-idr-large-community - Working Group Adoption call (9/6 to 9/20)

[Jared Mauch <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 12:48:35AM +0200, Robert Raszuk wrote:
> Hi Sander,
> 
> There is nothing there specific to wide communities.
> 
> Transitive across AS is applicable to all TLV encoded communities.
> 
> We may add a new flag to mark transitiveness across same operator ASes.
> 
> We agreed to dropped C flag as per my comment so forget it.
> 
> Local vs registered I already explained .. this is not only about wide
> comms. This is also about geo encoding. This is about meaning in the
> community (even large) which is understood without explicit policy code to
> handle it.

	While some people may see the need to make well defined
geo communities (similar to no-export), the reality is operators are
going to make their own opaque communities and not use IETF well-knowns.

	We for example do not honor certain well knowns such as
no-export or local-as.

> The comment below needs to edited if it goes to standalone doc - you are
> right. I just copied for now from main spec.
> 
> Type, length size is recommended to be of two octet each.
> 
> Context-AS is agreed already among everyone.


	- jared