Re: [sidr] [Idr] AS_SET depreciation (RFC6472) and BGP multipath

[Jeffrey Haas <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:45:22PM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> ah yes, was thinking of local-as. the 'replace-as' seems like
> loop-creation, joy.

For the list, as I mentioned in SIDR, the use of local-AS where the router
has more than one local AS will generate AS_SETs in some implementations.
In particular, implementations with gated lineages may do this.

This is because in pretending to be another AS it's still necessary to throw
the global and local ASes in the path to prevent loops in cases where the
local AS on one router may not be configured consistently (global) AS-wide.
In those implementations, a single AS is simply added prior to the global AS
in the path as a sequence or all local ASes as a set.

In another implementation, the local ASes are added as a sequence.

Adding the additional AS to the path would still require an additional
signature step in BGPSEC.  Clearly this doesn't work for AS-sets.

-- Jeff