Re: [Idr] WG LC on draft-ietf-idr-large-community-03.txt (10/17/2016 to 10/31/2016)

heasley <heas@shrubbery.net> Mon, 24 October 2016 18:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idr] WG LC on draft-ietf-idr-large-community-03.txt (10/17/2016 to 10/31/2016)
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Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 08:17:48PM +0200, Robert Raszuk:
> You still could do that.
> 
> You overload last octet with exact action you need just like you do today
> with 1997.

Please review the threads associated with -large- to re-discover why that
is not acceptable.

> Three sets of 4 octets with no semantics still requires curret way to
> advertise what action given community means at any target ASN.
> 
> Best,
> R
> 
> Ps. Besides adding 4 more octets to leave current LC as is just to be able
> to avoid anonymous injections seems to me like very little price as
> compared with befit. But I guess am alone with that point of view here.
> 
> On Oct 24, 2016 2:08 PM, "heasley" <heas@shrubbery.net> wrote:
> 
> > Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 03:53:05PM +0200, Robert Raszuk:
> > > You are mixing SRC_ASN with TARGET_ASN in the same field.
> >
> > I want to point-out that by forcing the first field to be "src_asn" as
> > you are suggesting, would make one intended use of -large- not possible,
> > for ASN1 to tell ASN2 to do something with a route as it applies to ASN3.
> > eg: ASN2:ASN3:action, ie: apply "action" (such as prepend) defined by ASN2
> > to ASN1's route when advertised to ASN3.
> >
> > > Yes RFC1997 works like that but here we have opportunity to improve it.
> >
> > We have improved it.
> >