[192412] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Large BGP Communities beacon in the wild
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Bensley)
Thu Oct 27 17:28:58 2016
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In-Reply-To: <270091A8-32B1-4519-A578-383C5A97332F@delong.com>
From: James Bensley <jwbensley@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 22:28:21 +0100
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 27 October 2016 at 16:47, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> I don=E2=80=99t mind the move to 32, but I hope the vendors are getting a=
ppropriately smacked for squatting and that those attributes are not allowe=
d to be misappropriated by the vendors.
>
> We have a standards process for a reason and vendors simply squatting on =
numbers is a violation of that process which cannot be allowed to stand unl=
ess we wish to establish that as precedent and simply allow vendors to clai=
m numbers as they wish.
>
> This already happened with the BSD community in their implementation of a=
pseudo-VRRP like capability and now two different vendors have abused BGP =
path attributes.
>
> This is not a good path for us to continue.
>
> Owen
Here here!
Name and shame, it is not acceptable!
James.
