Re: [Idr] WG adoption of draft-heitz-idr-large-community; one week to comment on early code point allocation

[Job Snijders <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:31:45AM -0400, Jeffrey Haas wrote:
> > On Sep 27, 2016, at 4:24 AM, Job Snijders <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 07:31:57PM -0400, Jeffrey Haas wrote:
> >> FWIW, I think things with "well known" semantics should stick to the
> >> reserved code point space in 1997 communities unless there's some
> >> motivation to have a common parameter/argument in it.  In that case,
> >> it fits the case for large comms anyway.
> > 
> > I agree with you Jeff. 
> > 
> > How about the following:
> > 
> > """
> >    The Large Community attribute values in the following ranges are
> >    reserved:
> > 
> >             0:0:0 -          0:4294967295:4294967295
> >    4294967295:0:0 - 4294967295:4294967295:4294967295
> > 
> > """
> > 
> > This way the lowest and highest possible value are reserved, and at some
> > later point (part of) these reserved ranges could be converted to
> > Well-known or something else if that need arises.
> 
> I'm fine with such a reservation. However, it'd be good to get the
> reasoning in the doc rather than letting it be inferred after the
> fact.

Thank you for your feedback.

Would you be willing to (unicast) a couple of sentences to describe why
0 and 2^32-1 are special?

Kind regards,

Job