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)

Susan Hares <shares@ndzh.com> Wed, 19 October 2016 02:19 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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Michael
<individual contributor hat on>After listening to numerous talks at nanog about open source bgp implementations - it is equally important to consider open source since it is being used in many networks.
What is most important is to protect large communities from having problems.
Sue


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-------- Original message --------From: Michael H Lambert <lambert@psc.edu> Date: 10/18/16  11:44 AM  (GMT-05:00) To: IETF IDR WG <idr@ietf.org> Cc: Kristian Larsson <kll@dev.terastrm.net> 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) 
> On 18 Oct 2016, at 11:30, Job Snijders <job@ntt.net> wrote:
> 
> I support this course of action.
> 
> background: Some in the working group might wonder why Large should
> change instead of Huawei.
> 
> Huawei routers are treating routes with Large BGP Communities as
> "withdraw", which makes Large BGP Communities deployments suffer. Large
> BGP Communities users become unreachable on attribute 30.
> 
> Had the squatting resulted in Huawei routers crashing or some other form
> of damage on the Huawei side, the onus would be on Huawei users. This is
> not the case unfortunatly.
> 
> There are no winners if either side holds their ground and remains on
> the codepoint. For Large BGP Communities it is still early enough to
> update the implementations. Changing the Large BGP Communities path
> attribute value is a risk adverse strategy.

Would the same course of action be recommended if it were an open-source project (eg bird or quagga), rather than a commercial router vendor, squatting on attribute 30?  If the answer is an unequivocal yes, then I agree with the proposed course of action.  Otherwise, I think the burden falls on the vendor to fix their (with respect to standards) broken implementation.

Michael

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