[119060] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Upstream BGP community support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Meuse)
Thu Nov 5 17:33:58 2009
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 17:33:07 -0500
From: Steve Meuse <smeuse@mara.org>
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
In-Reply-To: <4AEF3AF2.7040402@brightok.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Jack Bates expunged (jbates@brightok.net):
> I think creating a standard or at least a template might push more
> people to adopt communities support and to use them.
I put this up there with trynig to define inter-provider QoS. You are never going to get two business to agree to the same model.....and after all, community support is basically a business tool. I know from experience that some providers deliberately constrain their community support for business purposes, this goes back 10+ years.....
-Steve