Re: [Idr] Mirja Kühlewind's No Objection on draft-ietf-idr-ix-bgp-route-server-11: (with COMMENT)

"Mirja Kuehlewind (IETF)" <ietf@kuehlewind.net> Mon, 13 June 2016 14:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idr] Mirja Kühlewind's No Objection on draft-ietf-idr-ix-bgp-route-server-11: (with COMMENT)
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Great! Thanks!

> Am 13.06.2016 um 15:42 schrieb Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>:
> 
> Mirja Kuehlewind wrote:
>> Quick question: Why is the following statement a SHOULD and not a MUST:
>> "the route server SHOULD NOT prepend its own AS number to the AS_PATH
>>   segment nor modify the AS_PATH segment in any other way. "
>> Is this because the clients might eitherwise not accept the message? 
>> Maybe add one sentence to explain the SHOULD!
> 
> Hi Mirja,
> 
> This was the subject of some discussion recently on IDR.  Yes, probably
> appropriate to add in a one-liner to explain why it's SHOULD rather than
> MUST.
> 
> Nick