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Re: [Idr] I-D Action: draft-ietf-idr-large-community-01.txt

heasley <heas@shrubbery.net> Wed, 12 October 2016 21:56 UTC

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Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 09:45:52AM -0400, Jeffrey Haas:
> Arguably this was one of the motivations for doing scoping of attributes or
> communities themselves: If the effective operational behavior is almost
> always going to be AS-non-transitive, it'd be nice if the cleanup just
> happens automagically.  Unfortunately people are rather enamored with their
> existing cleanup mechanisms.

Please, no automatic clean-up.  A community may be 100% legitimately used
to affect a decision 2 or 3 AS-hops away and it is extremely useful.
Operators already know how to alter communities.

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