Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06.txt

Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net> Fri, 04 November 2016 18:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06.txt
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Jeff, 

I, for one, would encourage you do write this and get atomic-aggregate declared historic. It would result in an update to RFC1997 and RFC4360 and thereby make them consistent with the current text in the Large Communities draft.


Geoff


> On 5 Nov. 2016, at 4:27 am, Susan Hares <shares@ndzh.com> wrote:
> 
> Jeff: 
> 
> My understanding of the process - is that you do not need to have an RFC to
> deem something historical.  You simply do a WG LC on historical and then
> pass it to the IESG.  
> 
> Sue 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Haas [mailto:jhaas@pfrc.org] 
> Sent: Friday, November 4, 2016 12:49 PM
> To: Susan Hares
> Cc: 'Geoff Huston'; 'IETF IDR WG'; rtg-dir@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06.txt
> 
> Sue,
> 
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 12:38:56PM -0400, Susan Hares wrote:
>> Should atomic-aggregate be deemed "historical" at this point?  This 
>> can happen in parallel to this work.
> 
> I'd argue, yes.
> 
> You might recall some of the reasoning as fallout to my introduction to IETF
> and the resultant churn in the 1771bis work as we tried to get the feature
> to make sense. :-)
> 
> While I'm happy to write such a document at some point, it's something
> that's very low priority for the WG.  In the meantime, I'll just keep
> pushing back on things that refer to it.
> 
> -- Jeff
>