[168440] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Route Server Filters at IXPs and 4-byte ASNs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Sat Jan 25 13:38:00 2014
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Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:37:42 +0000
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Sebastian Spies <s+Mailinglisten.nanog@sloc.de>, nanog@nanog.org
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On 25/01/2014 15:48, Sebastian Spies wrote:
> To make things worse: even if the IXPs ASN is 2-byte, I would assume,
> that RS implementors chose to interpret extended community strings as
> always being in the format 4-byte:2-byte (see RFC5668).
some ixp operators (e.g. me) are rather enthusiastic about the idea of a
modified form of draft-raszuk-wide-bgp-communities getting more traction.
This would solve this particular problem and many others.
Nick
