Re: Last Call: BGP communities attribute to Proposed Standard

Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net> Tue, 07 May 1996 17:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: BGP communities attribute to Proposed Standard
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 May 1996 16:24:55 EDT." <9605061625.aa27181@IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
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From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>
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In message <9605061625.aa27181@IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US>, The IESG writes:
> 
> The IESG has received a request from the Inter-Domain Routing Working
> Group to consider BGP communities attribute
> <draft-ietf-idr-communities-00.txt> for the status of Proposed
> Standard.


This is a fine bit of work and represents a very useful addition to
BGP.  I would only like to point out that it references a draft,
draft-ietf-idr-bgp-confed-00.txt.


> The IESG will also consider the publication of An Application of the
> BGP Community Attribute in Multi-home Routing
> <draft-ietf-idr-community-usage-00.txt> as an Informational RFC.


No harm in describing this usage of BGP Community Attribute.  There
are also other good uses of the BGP Community Attribute that could be
describved in later drafts.


> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
> final comments on this action.  Please send any comments to the
> iesg@ietf.org or ietf@cnri.reston.va.us mailing lists by May 20, 1996.


I support advancing both documents.  Something has to be done about
the reference to draft-ietf-idr-bgp-confed-00.txt.

Curtis
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