Re: [Idr] community of the day - common header

[Sander Steffann <[e-mail]>]

Hi Nick,

> Our situation now is:
> 
> - the operational people who have contributed to this conversation think
> that large is going to work for their requirements, and is worth deploying.
> 
> - there is running code (xr, bird and exabgp) which implements the large
> proposal, and commitments from a bunch of other stacks, including non
> open-source vendors.

Sounds like this is close to rough consensus and running code...

> If we were having this conversation in 2008-2009, which was the first
> time that lack of >= 32b:32b communities started causing serious
> operational problems, I'd be a good deal more sanguine about things.
> But that time is over: it's 7 years later, and the entire operational
> community is now staring at a fast-approaching brick wall.

And demonstrated need...

There may be better, nicer, cooler, more flexible solutions. But the large proposal seems to be good enough for the foreseeable operational requirements. Operators need feature parity for 16 and 32 bit ASN now.

Cheers,
Sander