Disagree, we want something deployed (large) and deployable (requiring only
IANA action, no vendor activity) immediately.
IMHO, any special handling or new code points or upgrades are non-starters.
This particularly applies to wide and extended
Brian

On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 5:41 PM Dongjie (Jimmy) <jie.d...@huawei.com> wrote:

> Agree that for this case it may be more convenient to just use extended
> community with a new type, this could avoid any possible collision with
> existing deployments, and save the effort of assigning a set of ASNs. Wide
> community may be too powerful for this:)
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jie
>
>
>
> *From:* Robert Raszuk [mailto:rob...@raszuk.net]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 5, 2020 6:38 AM
> *To:* Jakob Heitz (jheitz) <jhe...@cisco.com>
> *Cc:* Sriram, Kotikalapudi (Fed) <kotikalapudi.sri...@nist.gov>; Job
> Snijders <j...@ntt.net>; Nick Hilliard <n...@foobar.org>; John Heasly <
> h...@shrubbery.net>; i...@ietf.org; grow-cha...@ietf.org;
> idr-cha...@ietf.org; grow@ietf.org
> *Subject:* Re: [GROW] Question about BGP Large Communities
>
>
>
>
>
> > How would you divide the numbers?
>
>
>
> I would not divide them at all in LCs. I would either define new type in
> extended communities or use wide communities.
>
>
>
> But I am a bit biased here ;-)
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> R,
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 11:34 PM Jakob Heitz (jheitz) <jhe...@cisco.com>
> wrote:
>
> The numbers are a trade off. How would you divide the numbers?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jakob.
>
>
>
> On Feb 4, 2020, at 2:19 PM, Robert Raszuk <rob...@raszuk.net> wrote:
>
> 
>
> And you think 255 such known large communities will be sufficient ?
>
>
>
> Thx,
>
> R.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 9:45 PM Jakob Heitz (jheitz) <jhe...@cisco.com>
> wrote:
>
> A set of well known large communities could be useful.
>
> I have a draft that I never submitted attached to this email.
>
> Does anyone want to co-author and suggest changes?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jakob.
>
>
>
> *From:* Sriram, Kotikalapudi (Fed) <kotikalapudi.sri...@nist.gov>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 4, 2020 10:22 AM
> *To:* Jakob Heitz (jheitz) <jhe...@cisco.com>; Job Snijders <j...@ntt.net>;
> Nick Hilliard <n...@foobar.org>; John Heasly <h...@shrubbery.net>
> *Cc:* i...@ietf.org; grow@ietf.org; idr-cha...@ietf.org;
> grow-cha...@ietf.org; a.e.azi...@gmail.com; Brian Dickson <
> brian.peter.dick...@gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Question about BGP Large Communities
>
>
>
> In the route leaks solution draft,
>
>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-grow-route-leak-detection-mitigation-02
>
> we (the authors) have proposed using BGP Large Community.
>
> We specify this to be a "well-known transitive Large Community".
>
>
>
> Question:
>
> Can the draft simply make an IANA request for
>
> a Global Administrator ASN value for Route Leaks Protection (RLP) type
>
> and request that it be published in IANA registry
>
> as a "well-known Transitive Large Community"?
>
>
>
> There is no IANA registry for Large Communities yet;
>
> we have requested IDR and GROW Chairs to facilitate that.
>
>
>
> ----------------
>
> Details/background:
>
>
>
> We've read the following RFCs related to Large Communities:
>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8092
>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8195
>
>
>
> RFC 8195 has this table:
>
>
>                  +-------------------------------+-------------------------+
>
>                  |       RFC8092                    | RFC
> 8195                |
>
>
> +-------------------------------+--------------------------+
>
>                  | Global Administrator    |      ASN                     |
>
>                  |  Local Data Part 1           |    Function
> |
>
>                  |  Local Data Part 2           |   Parameter            |
>
>
> +--------------------------------+-------------------------+
>
> which is instructive. In the examples that RFC 8195 offers,
>
> it appears it is *assumed* that the Large Communities are transitive.
>
>
>
> For comparison, in Extended Communities (RFC 7153), there are
>
> explicit Type values assigned for Transitive, Non-transitive, etc.
>
>
> https://www.iana.org/assignments/bgp-extended-communities/bgp-extended-communities.xhtml
>
> However, there is no such explicit Type specification
>
> for Large Communities (in RFC 8092 or elsewhere).
>
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> Sriram
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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