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

Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org> Wed, 19 October 2016 22:25 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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> On Oct 19, 2016, at 6:01 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> 
> Jeffrey Haas wrote:
>> I had thought that a BCOP document on communities was out there for BGP
>> communities in general, but "community" clutters the search engines
>> quite a bit and I'm not finding such a thing.
> 
> are you thinking of rfc7454?

Something more complete than that.  An old NANOG output, if I recall correctly.

> 
> Dave's suggestion is definitely an operational- rather than a
> protocol-level issue.  draft-ietf-idr-large-community is a protocol
> definition, so it would be better to see this in a GROW document.

That's the point I was trying to make.  Although a "operational considerations" section is considered reasonable for IETF RFCs these days. (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5706 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5706>)


> 
> Nick