[168811] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Route Server Filters at IXPs and 4-byte ASNs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Haas)
Tue Feb 4 22:58:59 2014
From: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org>
In-Reply-To: <m27g9nr7zm.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:58:43 -0500
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: Jakob Heitz <jakob.heitz@ericsson.com>,
North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Jan 25, 2014, at 5:50 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>> http://tools.ietf.org/search/draft-raszuk-wide-bgp-communities-03
>> To me, that draft looks hugely complicated, like everything you
>> could possibly think of was thrown in.
>=20
> <aol>
>=20
> do we have a chat with robert or push an alternative so that the wg is
> pushed to compromise?
>=20
The token to simplify is currently mine. The messy bit was an attempt to try=
to push policy algebra into the packet format. A hallway conversation with a=
certain German gentleman helped disabuse me about the wisdom of doing that.=
=20
Cleaning up the document will take probably another two rounds but a terse d=
escription of where it should be going is "template based structured communi=
ties".=20
-- Jeff
> randy
