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Re: [Idr] [internet-drafts@ietf.org: I-D Action: draft-haas-idr-extended-experimental-00.txt]

Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org> Mon, 07 November 2016 15:23 UTC

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From: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org>
To: Marco Marzetti <marco@lamehost.it>
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Marco,

On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 08:23:36PM +0100, Marco Marzetti wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > A feature such as this one, perhaps extended with a per-attribute form of
> > draft-ietf-idr-bgp-attribute-announcement along with enough information to
> > figure out when filtering wasn't done could provide some safety.
> >
> > The related changes to this proposal would be to simply add the 4-octets of
> > the attribute announcement scoping and potentially the attaching AS.
> > However, given even such vendor features are likely to need to work in an
> > inter-as fashion, generating scopes of containment become tricky.
> >
> >
> I have always wondered if we should add and N bit to
> draft-ietf-idr-bgp-attribute-announcement to limit the advertisements to
> neighbor ASes only.

Such a thing was discussed among the authors of the attribute-announcement
draft.  What this would mean is such a bit would need to be set and then
automatically reset into the M-bits (C+A) at the next boundary.

The general challenges about what to do when intervening routers did not
understand the header remain.

-- Jeff

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