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

Job Snijders <job@ntt.net> Thu, 20 October 2016 15:42 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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Hi Tom,

I've removed the word 'usually'. Thank you for the suggestion. 

Kind regards,

Job

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 09:37:59AM +0100, t.petch wrote:
> Jared
> 
> As Brian has pointed out, it was the use of 'usually' that I was
> concerned with, as watering down the recommended use of an ASN by
> RFC1997.  Excise 'usually' and that part of my concern goes away.
> 
> Tom Petch
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jared Mauch" <jared@puck.Nether.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 7:54 PM
> 
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:47:05AM +0100, t.petch wrote:
> > > I remain unhappy with this I-D.
> > >
> > > I find it ironic that the messages for this Last Call should be
> > > interspersed with those relating to what goes wrong when someone
> > > somewhere else in the world uses a field in an unexpected way.  This
> > > reinforces my belief that this I-D should be more forceful in
> calling
> > > out the dangers (eg MUST instead of SHOULD).
> > >
> > > I think that this I-D is factually incorrect, or at least open to
> > > misinterpretation,  when it says
> > > '[RFC1997] BGP Communities attributes are four-octet values split
> into
> > >    two two-octet words.  The most significant word is usually
> > >    interpreted as an Autonomous System Number (ASN) '
> >
> > rfc1998: section 4 gives you the slice + dice bits:
> >
> > -- snip -- rfc 1998 --
> >    To make use of the BGP community attribute, several community
> values
> >    (MCI's AS number: 3561 = 0x0DE9) have been defined that can be used
> >    by customers to tag routes so that the appropriate "LOCAL_PREF"
> >    values are configured. Table 2 lists the appropriate community
> >    attribute values (and the mappings of community to LOCAL_PREF):
> > -- snip -- rfc 1998 --
> >
> > This is the segmenting, and most customers have
> > "ip bgp community new-format" configured.
> >
> > If your issue is about printf %ull vs %d:%d:%d we operators
> > can solve this by ensuring our vendors do the right thing, which
> > we have already done 20 years ago via rfc1998.
> >
> > This nit is imo not worth picking.
> >
> > - Jared
> >
> > --
> > Jared Mauch  | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net
> > clue++;      | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/  My statements are only
> mine.
> 
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