Re: [Idr] Early allocation for wide communities [was: Re: 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)]

Job Snijders <job@ntt.net> Tue, 18 October 2016 20:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idr] Early allocation for wide communities [was: Re: 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 Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 04:27:13PM -0400, Jeffrey Haas wrote:
> > On Oct 18, 2016, at 2:06 PM, Job Snijders <job@ntt.net> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 01:25:25PM -0400, John G. Scudder wrote:
> >>   c.  The specifications of these code points must be stable; i.e., if
> >>       there is a change, implementations based on the earlier and later
> >>       specifications must be seamlessly interoperable.
> >> 
> >> I am not sure this is true. Is it? 
> > 
> > I do not believe that to be true.
> 
> Wide comms was spec-wise pretty stable until recently when we tried to
> accommodate large comms as a header.  The amount things were perturbed
> wasn't much but still was still incompatible.
> 
> But I agree with the general sentiment: We want it to be at that
> stability point before proceeding with the actual early allocation.  
> 
> This also hits the interesting question about versioning to accept my
> own criticisms about incremental deployment.
> 
> What would be nice would be to hear the feedback from the implementors
> at Huawei as to their experiences in implementing the spec.  This
> would give insight to the level of maturity of the draft, along with
> being a lot more careful to avoid spec churn if it's actually getting
> traction.

Yes, implementor feedback before an early allocation makes a lot of
sense.