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Re: [Idr] Benoit Claise's Discuss on draft-ietf-idr-large-community-11: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

heasley <heas@shrubbery.net> Wed, 04 January 2017 15:46 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idr] Benoit Claise's Discuss on draft-ietf-idr-large-community-11: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 04:39:25PM +0100, Benoit Claise:
> Ignas,
> > Hi Benoit,
> >
> > Thank you for reviewing.
> >
> > Global Administrator field is a 4 octet integer that is used to carry 
> > AS number but it is not mandatory to interpret it as an AS number only 
> > (while a typical use case is for carrying AS number) - two peers can 
> > agree on any value that has meaning between those peers. 
> > Representation on the wire is in network byte order, and 2 byte AS 
> > number will get naturally padded with two zero bytes in front. 
> > Virtually all deployments today are AS4 capable and use AS4 encoding 
> > even for AS number values that fit into 16 bit value range therefore 
> > AS number is a 4 octet entity already.
> Thanks Ignas.
> Then this sentence in the abstract "The attribute is suitable for use 
> with four-octet ASNs." is misleading, right? At least to me.
> The attribute is suitable for four-octets ASNs and two-octets ASNs 
> encoded in four-octets.
> This would be more in line with "This field SHOULD be an Autonomous 
> System Number (ASN)" later on.

No, because it is in reference to rfc1997, which is not usable with AS4.

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