[14627] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP community based IP filtering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian R. Kim)
Thu Jan 15 19:23:33 1998
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:05 -0500
From: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@blackrose.org>
To: Alan Hannan <hannan@bythetrees.com>
Cc: Matt Ryan <matt@planet.net.uk>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980115195430.50510@freedom.bythetrees.com>; from Alan Hannan on Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 07:54:30PM -0500
On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 07:54:30PM -0500, Alan Hannan wrote:
> The thrust of my goal, mangled as it was, was that this become
> fairly common and expected. If so, then one could communicate
> and act upon routes based upon their associated BGP communities.
>
> This, imho, would be a very good thing.
Agreed. An operator community concensus to this affect to the vendors
would be a good thing.
I did not mean to dispute this point, and meant only to point out that
some venues are better than others for efforts such as this.
-dorian
