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Re: [Idr] Request to adopt draft-heitz-idr-large-community - Working Group Adoption call (9/6 to 9/20)

Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net> Thu, 15 September 2016 17:08 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idr] Request to adopt draft-heitz-idr-large-community - Working Group Adoption call (9/6 to 9/20)
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On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 05:45:27PM +0200, Robert Raszuk wrote:
> And as far as formal adoption of Wide BGP Communities along with separated
> per IDR WG recommendation Registered List of Most Common BGP policies
> embedded into RFC1997 communities just happened one year ago - June 2015.
> 
> So calling it names like old, stalled, rejected to be implemented isn't a
> bit premature?

	I don't think so, because if you look at some of the "workarounds"
pointed to by IDR members include a document that appears by name
to say it will do 4-octets, but really can't handle a 4:4 use-case.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-idr-as4octet-extcomm-generic-subtype-03

(the other changes appear to be just version bumps from 03 -> 09)

	- Jared


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