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

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Fri, 24 June 2016 20:05 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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> the intent is to acknowledge that there are some bgp stacks which cannot
> handle leftmost as != peer as when acting as an rs client. Mostly these
> stacks are legacy, but there are still some bgp implementations which
> don't support this feature on the client side, even though the client
> side part is mandated further down the paragraph.
> 
> If the SHOULD is changed to MUST, then the IXP operator will not be able
> to provide RS service to clients like this.  This is not a helpful thing
> to do from a operational point of view.

though i have little sympathy for folk who want to connect broken home
appliances to exchanges, at least thie answers the AD's question.

randy

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