Re: [Idr] Last Call: <draft-ietf-idr-ix-bgp-route-server-10.txt> (Internet Exchange BGP Route Server) to Proposed Standard

[Marco Marzetti <[e-mail]>]

On 2016-06-01 13:17, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> Marco Marzetti wrote:
>> I agree with you that you can run a route server and insert your ASn 
>> in
>> the path, but i think that is a lack of common sense which brings only
>> contraries and no benefits.
>> 
>> About RFC2119: It says that "SHOULD NOT" implies a valid reason to
>> accept a behavior, but i can't find any.
> 
> I agree that it is not a clever thing to do. The valid reason to accept
> the behaviour is that it works in practice: some IXPs have done this in
> production, in many cases for years.
> 
> There is a secondary reason: some rs client bgp stacks don't support 
> the
> option to accept an AS path from the RS where the leftmost entry on the
> AS path != peeras.
> 
> These are not "good" reasons in the sense that they mandate behaviour
> which is suboptimal, but they are valid reasons.
> 
> Nick

Nick,

I think that we should define a standard that addresses and corrects 
those non-clever behaviors rather than embrace them.

My point is: even if they work in the real world, they do because of the 
workarounds that other people put in place and they bring no benefits.

Regards

-- 
Marco