Re: [Idr] Squatters (Was: BGP Attribute for Large communities (Attribute 30) was squatted on..)

Job Snijders <job@instituut.net> Thu, 27 October 2016 10:42 UTC

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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 12:41:58 +0200
From: Job Snijders <job@instituut.net>
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Subject: Re: [Idr] Squatters (Was: BGP Attribute for Large communities (Attribute 30) was squatted on..)
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 10:22:26AM +0000, marco@lamehost.it wrote:
> >> I was suggesting the same thing out-of-list today.
> >> We should really assign ~5 values to experimental/development puroposes
> >> 
> > The problem here is that people are not abiding the rules, and offering
> > more codepoints will only work if people abide those rules. I have no
> > confidence that more dev codepoints resolve the issue.
> > 
> 
> I am just trying to cope with the status quo.  Vendors are squatting
> codepoints for their own purposes, it is obviously is bad and they
> shouldn't, but they do.
> 
> I can understand how a single value may not be enough for large
> environments with multiple development processes.  So i think that we
> should try address the "unpleasant" habit of squatting what they
> should ask for by giving them enough room to work with.

If you can't isolate your features in development branches, something is
strange in your development process. This is of course a subjective
statement, I'd like to hear from more fulltime implementors what their
take on this is.

> My *wish* is in that way vendors will use experimental space in
> development phase and get back to the community to get an assignment
> when ready.

If you look at the numbers that have been used so far: 30, 31, 129 -
those are all square in the middle. If you have concurrent projects and
need multiple bgp path attributes, I'd expect someone to squat on the
high numbers: 254, 253, 252, etc - because IANA, obviously is counting
upwards. The presence of low (not yet used) squatted codepoints, shows
me that the social contract is not followed, so making more rules won't
address that.

Kind regards,

Job