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

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Tue, 14 June 2016 03:14 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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>>>> i hate to be old fashioned; actually, that's a lie; but is there either
>>>> an OLD/NEW here or an internet-draft.
> err, maybe nick was thinking there might be more revisions on his text
> options?

see OLD/NEW comment above

> I'm not a native bgp speaker, but I'd question (for instance) the use of
> 'AS_PATH segment' in this part of the draft, given:
> 
>             "AS_PATH is a well-known mandatory attribute that is composed
>             of a sequence of AS path segments.  Each AS path segment is
>             represented by a triple <path segment type, path segment
>             length, path segment value>."
> 
> from: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4271
> 
> I would have thought 'segment' was an individual 'asn' (the triple I
> suppose, the TLV) in the AS_PATH, not the whole 'AS_PATH' attribute. Maybe
> instead of 'AS_PATH segment' in nick's revision:
> 
>              "This differs from the behaviour specified in section
>               5.1.2 of <xref target="RFC4271" />, which requires that
>               the BGP speaker prepends its own AS number as the last
>               element of the AS_PATH.  While it is technically
>               possible to operate a route server which prepends its
>               own AS to the AS_PATH, it is not recommended to do so
>               because this may adversely affect the resulting network
>               topology between the route server clients."
> 
> ​again, I'm not a native bgp speaker, so I'm probably off base, but...
> maybe there's a revision in the revision still to be had before updating
> the actual draft archive?​

i think what might be said is "creating an undesirably longer AS_PATH"
and thus biasing receivers against using the exchange.