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Re: [Sidrops] WGLC for draft-ietf-sidrops-ov-egress-00.txt - ENDS 11/25/2019 (November 25 2019)

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Mon, 02 December 2019 01:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Sidrops] WGLC for draft-ietf-sidrops-ov-egress-00.txt - ENDS 11/25/2019 (November 25 2019)
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> My problem was with these two sentences:
> 
> #1 
> "Configurations may have complex policy where the final announced
>    origin AS may not be easily predicted before all policies have been
>    run."
> 
> Is it not the same as simply saying: 
> Configurations may have complex policy where the final announced
>    origin AS is determined only after all policies have been run.
> 
> Why not state that and keep it simple?

because it is the inability to predict which is important.

> #2 
> "Therefore it SHOULD be possible to specify an origin validation
>  policy which MUST BE run after such non-deterministic policies."
> 
> What does it mean to say "specify origin validation policy"?

> The operator knows their complex policies and can determine
> the origin AS that would result after the policies are applied.

no.  that is point.  as stated before, exogenous data can make the
result not deteminable from analysis of the configuration.

> I hope this clarifies what I was trying to say.

it does.  but i happen not to agree with it.

randy

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