Re: [Sidrops] [GROW] Deprecation of AS_SET and AS_CONFED_SET -- feedback requested

Rob Foehl <rwf@loonybin.net> Wed, 02 October 2019 23:45 UTC

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Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 19:45:15 -0400
From: Rob Foehl <rwf@loonybin.net>
To: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org>
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On Thu, 26 Sep 2019, Jeffrey Haas wrote:
>> On Sep 26, 2019, at 6:43 PM, Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> wrote:
>>
>> This is nice, but what would make it more useful would be if it also
>> reported if there are *useful* AS_SETS / if the AS_SET means anything.
>>
>> For example, from Jared's email below:
>> AS path:  14061 3356 6762 23487 27738 27738 27738 27738 27738 27738
>> {27738} -- the 27738 AS already shows up as a non-AS_SET in the path.
>
> This one is on the buggy end of things, but still reasonably valid.  It smells like something that passed through remove-private of some flavor.

I'd wager this explains nearly all of the "set of one" instances seen in 
the wild -- there are currently a half dozen or so with a set containing a 
private AS at the end of the path.

> It'd be interesting to find out what code these folk are running. Hopefully not one of my bugs. :-)

I've never had an interaction with AS_SET that could be described as 
anything other than broken -- like, ever, from any vendor.  I'd prefer to 
see them disappear entirely, but if that doesn't happen, at least having a 
"no-as-sets-under-any-circumstances" policy knob would be helpful...

-Rob