Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06.txt
Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org> Fri, 04 November 2016 10:34 UTC
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Subject: Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06.txt
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> On Nov 4, 2016, at 4:59 AM, Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net> wrote: > > I just noted that RFC1997 and RFC4360 had these constraints. > > It seems strange to me that an implementation would handle aggregation differently, treating communities and extended communities one way and large communities in a subtly different manner. > > Frankly I would prefer to see a consistent treatment of communities in the case of aggregation, and reproducxing the RFC4360 text kinda makes that clear (at least to me) > > Omitting it invites different handling and that would be not good The relevant point from the thread is that the atomic-aggregate attribute is largely protocol noise. It's a vestigial organ from the BGP-3 to BGP-4 transition, and a poorly specified one at that. We shouldn't include its use in specifications, particularly where discussing aggregation. The only place its discussion would be relevant is as part of *de-*aggregation of a prefix. -- Jeff
- [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06.txt Geoff Huston
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Geoff Huston
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… heasley
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Susan Hares
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Geoff Huston
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Geoff Huston
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Geoff Huston
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Jakob Heitz (jheitz)
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Jakob Heitz (jheitz)
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Job Snijders
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Geoff Huston
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Geoff Huston
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Geoff Huston
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Jeffrey Haas
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Jeffrey Haas
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Jakob Heitz (jheitz)
- [Idr] Fwd: Review of draft-ietf-large-community-0… Jakob Heitz (jheitz)
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Susan Hares
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Jeffrey Haas
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Jay Borkenhagen
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Job Snijders
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Susan Hares
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Geoff Huston
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Geoff Huston
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Geoff Huston
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Job Snijders
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Geoff Huston
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Geoff Huston
- Re: [Idr] [RTG-DIR] Review of draft-ietf-large-co… John G. Scudder
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Geoff Huston
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Geoff Huston
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Job Snijders
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Job Snijders
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… David Farmer
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Geoff Huston
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Ignas Bagdonas
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Jakob Heitz (jheitz)
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Job Snijders
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Jakob Heitz (jheitz)
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Job Snijders
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Zhuangshunwan
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Job Snijders
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Robert Raszuk
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… heasley
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Robert Raszuk
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… heasley
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Robert Raszuk
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Nick Hilliard
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… heasley
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Jakob Heitz (jheitz)
- Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06… Zhuangshunwan