Re: [sidr] Question about draft-ietf-sidr-pfx-validate-03

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Sun, 13 November 2011 23:42 UTC

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>> I need some way to convey in iBGP it's preference relative to other
>> BGP-learned paths - how do I do that today under this architecture,
>> where if it were considered under the current algorithm it may well
>> be labeled "Invalid", even if a mapping exists for the local AS and
>> prefix in question?
> 
> Implementations mark it as valid today (unless the validation state  
> extcomm says otherwise). Re. John's reply, it probably makes sense to  
> clarify in the doc. Thanks for the comment.

workshop folk have asked to have intra-as generated routes marked.  it
is not clear to me that this would be bad.

randy