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Re: [Idr] 4-byte AS community encoding (was re: wide communities)

Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org> Mon, 26 July 2010 15:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idr] 4-byte AS community encoding (was re: wide communities)
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 02:42:39PM +0000, Jeffrey Haas wrote:
> > Also last but not least the draft  
> > dhrao-idr-4octet-extcomm-generic-subtype does not define a notion of AS  
> > specific communities which clearly may have good applications even at  
> > customer-ISP boundary.
> 
> That is not its intended purpose.  Again, see my original comment about
> proceeding with the additional functionality work covered by wide and
> flexible communities.

It was suggested to me off-list that I may have misunderstood what you meant
by "AS specific communities".  Could you clarify?

-- Jeff

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