Hi,

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 11:11:30AM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> ???Perhaps Nick is reacting to language like:
> "???
>  This well-known advisory transitive BGP
>    community, namely BLACKHOLE, allows an origin AS to specify that a
>    neighboring IP network or IXP should blackhole a specific IP prefix.
> ???"???
> 
> ???which could be cleaned up a bit like:
> "???This well-known advisory transitive BGP
>    community, namely BLACKHOLE, allows an origin AS to specify that a
>    neighboring IP network or IXP PARTICIPANT should blackhole a
>    specific IP prefix."

Well, the intention *is* that "if the IXP supports black-holing, please do".

In implementations like DECIX', the neighbouring IXP participant does not
have to do anything in particular, except "accept the prefix with the
black-hole nexthop".


Maybe more along the lines of

  This well-known advisory transitive BGP
    community, namely BLACKHOLE, allows an origin AS to specify that a
    neighboring IP network or IXP that has appropriate mechanisms in place
    is requested to blackhole a specific IP prefix.

Gert Doering
        -- NetMaster
-- 
have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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