Re: [Idr] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-raszuk-wide-bgp-communities-05.txt

[Nick Hilliard <[e-mail]>]

On 09/03/2015 15:16, Jeffrey Haas wrote:
> Much as I'm obviously a fan of wide communities, there's a different draft
> covering this much more simple use case:
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-idr-as4octet-extcomm-generic-subtype-07

yep, this has come up before on idr@.  This is 32b:16b, which doesn't
provide enough space in the local administrator field for production networks.

> Operators are already using this bewildering set of options: Complex Policy to
> implement common use cases.  The goal for this proposal is to unroll some of
> that policy from the policy engine and put it more into the signaling.

Which is reasonable, but it's going to cause severe indigestion for some
router vendor grammars which don't have the structural hooks necessary to
be able to handle this sensibly.

>> 5. I love the idea of UTF8 communities.  On smaller network, these could be
>> a real win.
> 
> This is actually the piece I like the least. :-)

Indeed.  I configure routers for a living, whereas you design them.  We all
have our own angles on stuff.

Nick