Re: [Idr] BGP Attribute for Large communities (Attribute 30) was squatted on - Let's get a new attribute number (1 week WG call (10/18 to 10/25)

Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> Wed, 26 October 2016 13:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idr] BGP Attribute for Large communities (Attribute 30) was squatted on - Let's get a new attribute number (1 week WG call (10/18 to 10/25)
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On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 1:51 AM, Jakob Heitz (jheitz) <jheitz@cisco.com>
wrote:

> Because then we wouldn't own up to it and innocents would suffer.
>

I totally agree that owning up is good here.
I imagine that when other squatted values are discovered either in the
field or in tests the same: "oops!" email/etc will happen... but I don't
want us to end up just excluding forever the squatted
attributes/value/numbers, that'll be super painful in very short order.


> We would hope we could fix as much of it as possible and hope the rest
> wouldn't notice.
> Actually, the intended purpose of the NXOS line is for the data center,
> not the Internet and we can very likely fix all of the deployed ones.
> However, users have a right to deploy them wherever they want without
> notifying us and they have the right not to apply patches, so I chose to
> own up to the problem.
>

yup, I think it's nice to see folk stand up and say: "DOH! we screwed up,
sorry! we're now making our best effort to fix this, too." thanks!


> Honest, we didn't mean it. Sorry.
>
> Thanks,
> Jakob.
>
>
> On Oct 25, 2016, at 6:50 PM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> So, what's the downside to having IANA pick the next available (from the
> current list, prior to the 2 squatting incidents) value in cases like this?
>
> I think it's: "Some routers somewhere do bad things"
>   (or sometimes cause other remote people to do 'bad things' .. where
> sometimes that other person is 'me')
>
> and when that happens: "some people quickly upgrade code to avoid the 'bad
> things'"
> (presuming that the code is available, I mean... and I do hope that
> vendors, all of them, are telling their DE folk: "Hey, don't do this, it's
> super painful...srsly!")
>
> Is that about it? Why don't we just go back to assigning the next
> available and deal with the problem(s) as they arise?
>
> -chris
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Jakob Heitz (jheitz) <jheitz@cisco.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have discovered that Cisco has used BGP attribute code 31
>>
>> for an internal experiment in certain NXOS routers,
>>
>> but unfortunately some of the code leaked into production.
>>
>> The code does not send the attribute,
>>
>> but it receives it incorrectly. We are creating patches for the
>>
>> faulty code, but cannot guarantee that all affected routers will
>>
>> be patched. Consequently, we request deprecation of attribute
>>
>> code 31 as well.
>>
>>
>>
>> I apologize on behalf of Cisco for the oversight.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jakob.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Idr [mailto:idr-bounces@ietf.org] *On Behalf Of *Susan Hares
>> *Sent:* Monday, October 24, 2016 5:19 AM
>> *To:* idr@ietf.org
>> *Subject:* [Idr] BGP Attribute for Large communities (Attribute 30) was
>> squatted on - Let's get a new attribute number (1 week WG call (10/18 to
>> 10/25)
>>
>>
>>
>> IDR Working group:
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you for your input on the question of whether Large communities
>> should be reassigned another attribute number due to Huawei squatting on
>> attribute 30.  The WG consensus is that the IDR WG wishes to have IANA
>> deprecate attribute 30, and reassign large communities another attribute
>> number for its early allocation.
>>
>>
>>
>> Alvaro should request a new attribute number for wide communities.
>>
>>
>>
>> If wide communities implementers request an early allocation, the WG
>> consensus was unclear.  Therefore,  the code point of 129 is deprecated for
>> now.  The full discussion on this point is at:
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/idr/current/msg16556.html
>>
>>
>>
>> The following other attributes were seen in the wild with the comments we
>> saw:
>>
>>
>>
>> #        BGP function                                      Reference
>>
>> ----    -----------------------------------------------   ---------------
>>
>> 20     Connector Attribute (deprecated)   [RFC6037]
>>
>> 21      AS_PATHLIMIT (deprecated)           [draft-ietf-idr-as-pathlimit,
>> unknown]
>>
>> 30     (deprecated)                                       [variant of
>> draft-ietf-tunnel-encaps, Huawei router]
>>
>> 129   (deprecated)
>>         [draft-ietf-idr-wide-bgp-communities, Huawei router]
>>
>>
>>
>> Attribute  AS Attribute Observed
>>
>> -----------   --------------------------------
>>
>> 20           AS 22742  (Peter Hessler)
>>
>> 21           AS 14706, AS 11720, AS 22490
>>
>>                  https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/idr/c
>> urrent/msg16583.html
>>
>>
>>
>> 30   -  in trials reported by Job
>>
>> 129 -  self-reported by Huawei
>>
>>
>>
>> Sue Hares
>>
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