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Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06.txt

Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net> Fri, 04 November 2016 01:18 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idr] Review of draft-ietf-large-community-06.txt
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> On 4 Nov. 2016, at 11:47 am, heasley <heas@shrubbery.net> wrote:
> 
> Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 11:14:29AM +1100, Geoff Huston:
>> 2. ----------------
>> 
>> "Network operators 
>> attach BGP communities to routes to identify intrinsic properties of
>> these routes."
>> 
>> I don't think community attributes are an intrinsic property of a route
>> advertisement - they are more appropriately expressed as an attached attribute 
>> that expresses some desired property.
>> 
>> how about:
>> 
>> "Network operators attach BGP communities to routes to associate
>> particular properties with these routes."
> 
> is "particular" a useless word here?  I think the original text is fine, but
> to consider your suggestion and follow the less-is-more mantra….
> 


I was taking exception to the word “intrinsic”

The route attributes attach properties to the route - they are not expressing
an “intrinsic” property of the route.

I suggested “particular” to propose that the properties expressed with 
communities are an association added by the BGP speaker.

But less is more could just drop the adjective completely and I’d be equally
happy!


Geoff

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