[Idr] Re: Second final review for draft-ietf-idr-link-bandwidth after IESG review changes, ending 12 December, 2025

[Ketan Talaulikar <[e-mail]>]

FYI - https://github.com/ietf-wg-idr/draft-ietf-idr-link-bandwidth/pull/29

Some final follow-up with Med on his comments that was closed last week but
the version is yet to be posted to the data tracker.

Thanks,
Ketan


On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM Jeffrey Haas <[e-mail]> wrote:

> As part of IESG review, some small details were refined in the draft.
>
> Prior to forwarding the document to RFC publication, we want to have a
> final check with the working group to ensure that everyone is okay with
> those post WGLC changes.
>
> My personal summary of the changes covered in 21->22 are:
>
> - More discussion about the fact that 4-octet AS values can't be encoded
> in the Global Administrator field and that if a need for that is required
> that it's deferred to future work.
> - Clarifications that it's up to local policy for how link bandwidth value
> 0 is dealt with.
> - Reference draft-ietf-bess-ebgp-dmz to cover some of the load balancing
> considerations, and reinforce that transitivity doesn't impact the
> weighting of load balancing (text moved out of error handling to section 3
> to be more normative).
>
> However, this is just my personal summary. You're strongly encouraged to
> review the current document yourselves for correctness.
>
> -- Jeff
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *[e-mail]
> *Subject: **[Idr] I-D Action: draft-ietf-idr-link-bandwidth-22.txt*
> *Date: *December 4, 2025 at 10:50:29 PM EST
> *To: *<[e-mail]>
> *Cc: *[e-mail]
> *Reply-To: *[e-mail]
>
> Internet-Draft draft-ietf-idr-link-bandwidth-22.txt is now available. It
> is a
> work item of the Inter-Domain Routing (IDR) WG of the IETF.
>
>   Title:   BGP Link Bandwidth Extended Community
>   Authors: Pradosh Mohapatra
>            Reshma Das
>            Satya Mohanty
>            Serge Krier
>            Rafal Jan Szarecki
>            Akshay Gattani
>   Name:    draft-ietf-idr-link-bandwidth-22.txt
>   Pages:   12
>   Dates:   2025-12-04
>
> Abstract:
>
>   This document defines a BGP Extended Community, the Link Bandwidth
>   Extended Community, which carries bandwidth information to enable
>   weighted load-balancing in multipath scenarios.  It specifies the
>   format and processing rules for this extended community type.
>
> The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-link-bandwidth/
>
> There is also an HTMLized version available at:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-idr-link-bandwidth-22
>
> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-ietf-idr-link-bandwidth-22
>
> Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at:
> rsync.ietf.org::internet-drafts
>
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