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Re: [Idr] WGLC is for "BGP Router Capabilities Attribute” [was: Re: WG LC for draft-ietf-idr-entropy-09 (8/29 to 9/12/2023)]

Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org> Thu, 07 September 2023 19:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idr] WGLC is for "BGP Router Capabilities Attribute” [was: Re: WG LC for draft-ietf-idr-entropy-09 (8/29 to 9/12/2023)]
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Speaking as an individual contributor, I also think next-hop-capabilit(ies) better reflects the proposal.

-- Jeff


> On Sep 7, 2023, at 2:35 PM, John Scudder <jgs=40juniper.net@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Robert Raszuk pointed out [1] that the draft filename (draft-ietf-idr-entropy) doesn’t clearly reflect the title and scope of the spec — the title is "BGP Router Capabilities Attribute”, and indeed the ELCv3/Entropy Label Capability is only one example of a capability the RCA can contain.
> 
> As a reminder, we ended up with this filename because the draft is a merger of draft-ietf-idr-next-hop-capability and draft-ietf-idr-entropy-label, and that was the one we picked to merge down to. In retrospect maybe we should have merged down to draft-ietf-idr-next-hop-capability instead, or even picked a third, new, filename. 
> 
> I’ve adjusted the subject line to spotlight this fact, because Robert expressed concern that WG participants might not realize what the WGLC is about, and I promised [2] to follow up.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> —John
> 
> [1] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/idr/lEabkTb0VjymshotgF8Ej29vVkM/
> [2] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/idr/5XchsuIzrj5Hb4a8Ju2zG7jI_kM/
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