Just coming back to you on this one, Alvaro....

> I'm not too keen on the use of treat-as-withdraw, specially because
> the sender doesn't know that something happened.  Knowing that the
> communication is direct between the controller/classifier, I would
> like to propose thinking of multiple communities as interfering with
> the new one (see ยง7.7/rfc5575bis).  This would result in this document
> specifying something like this:
>
> OLD>
>   ...: the inclusion of the "Flow Specification for SFC Classifiers" action
>   extended community along with any other action MUST be treated by an
>   implementation of this specification as an error which SHOULD result in the
>   Flow Specification UPDATE message being handled as Treat-as-withdraw
>   according to Section 2.
>
> NEW>
>   ....  The "Flow Specification for SFC Classifiers" extended community
>   interferes with all other Traffic Filtering Actions.  Only the SFC
>   Classifiers action MUST be considered and all others ignored.
>
> If you *really* want to treat-as-withdraw, then here's my suggested
> text to be in line with rfc5575bis:
>
> NEW>
>   ...: a "Flow Specification for SFC Classifiers" Traffic Filtering Action
>   Extended Community advertised with any other Traffic Filtering Action
>   Extended Community MUST be treated as malformed.

We settled on the second of these options.

Best,
Adrian

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