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Re: [sidr] BGPSEC proposal to drop AS_PATH [was: Fwd: request for agenda items for interim meeting 6 Jun]

Russ White <russw@riw.us> Thu, 31 May 2012 23:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [sidr] BGPSEC proposal to drop AS_PATH [was: Fwd: request for agenda items for interim meeting 6 Jun]
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>>> - Extensibility to include new segment types. In principle this is a fairly serious omission, but one can argue that new segment types can't be introduced in practice, since existing implementations will treat them as fatal errors.

Doesn't this also impact 2 octet to 4 octet transition?

IMHO, this is a huge problem --much larger than we might imagine at this
particular moment in time.

Russ

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