Re: [Idr] I-D Action: draft-ietf-idr-rfc4893bis-07.txt

[Enke Chen <[e-mail]>]

Thanks, John.  The bug was introduced during editing in -06.

-- Enke

On 6/22/12 12:18 PM, John G. Scudder wrote:
> Thanks, Enke. To add to this, there is (I believe) just one normative change.
>
> -06 says:
>
>     The AS4_PATH attribute in an UPDATE message SHALL be considered
>     malformed under the following conditions:
>
>        - the attribute length is not a multiple of two, or is too small
>          (i.e., less than 6) for the attribute to carry at least one
>          AS number, or
>
>        - the path segment length in the attribute is either zero, or
>          is inconsistent with the attribute length, or
>
>        - the path segment type in the attribute is not one of the
>          types defined: AS_SEQUENCE, AS_SET.
>
> -07 changes the final bullet:
>
>     The AS4_PATH attribute in an UPDATE message SHALL be considered
>     malformed under the following conditions:
>
>        - the attribute length is not a multiple of two, or is too small
>          (i.e., less than 6) for the attribute to carry at least one
>          AS number, or
>
>        - the path segment length in the attribute is either zero, or
>          is inconsistent with the attribute length, or
>
>        - the path segment type in the attribute is not one of the
>          types defined: AS_SEQUENCE, AS_SET, AS_CONFED_SEQUENCE
>          and AS_CONFED_SET.
>
> Regards,
>
> --John
>
> On Jun 22, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Enke Chen wrote:
>
>> Hi, folks:
>>
>> The revised version addresses comments received during the IETF Last
>> Call.  The diff is larger due to several terminology related changes:
>>
>>> Q_GEN-1: Sometimes the text says "AS number", and sometimes
>> "Autonomous System number". Please use consistant terminology.
>>> Q_GEN-2: Sometimes the text says "2-octet", and sometimes
>> "two-octet". Please use consistant terminology.
>>> Q_GEN-3: Sometimes the text says "4-octet", and sometimes
>> "four-octet". Please use consistant terminology.
>>
>> Thanks.  -- Enke
>>
>> On 6/22/12 12:10 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
>>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
>>>   This draft is a work item of the Inter-Domain Routing Working Group of the IETF.
>>>
>>> 	Title           : BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number Space
>>> 	Author(s)       : Quaizar Vohra
>>>                            Enke Chen
>>> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-idr-rfc4893bis-07.txt
>>> 	Pages           : 12
>>> 	Date            : 2012-06-22
>>>
>>> Abstract:
>>>     The Autonomous System number is encoded as a two-octet entity in the
>>>     base BGP specification. This document describes extensions to BGP to
>>>     carry the Autonomous System numbers as four-octet entities.  This
>>>     document obsoletes RFC 4893.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-rfc4893bis
>>>
>>> There's also a htmlized version available at:
>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-idr-rfc4893bis-07
>>>
>>> A diff from previous version is available at:
>>> http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-idr-rfc4893bis-07
>>>
>>>
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