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

heasley <heas@shrubbery.net> Fri, 28 October 2016 16:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idr] Squatters (Was: BGP Attribute for Large communities (Attribute 30) was squatted on..)
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> > > What's the benefit of that? Why make these codepoints unusable forever?
> > 
> > Yes, make sure that they are not uselessly carried on the DFZ.
> > I can see the argument for ‘doing nothing’ tho.

how would you, or how long would it take to, un-deprecate these attributes
if vendors were to hard-code filtering of them?