Some of us may remember this (including Sue and Jeff). Jakob Heitz, I, and others have proposed/presented (in the IDR WG) the idea of a range of IANA-registered 4-octet ASN values for the Global Admin field to classify BGP Well Known Large Communities (WKLC). See: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-heitz-idr-wklc/ [1]
The above draft was motivated in part by the following GROW WG draft's request plus possible other use cases for WKLC: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-grow-route-leak-detection-mitigation/ [2] Our idea was critiqued for requesting 64M 4-octet ASN values to be set aside by IANA for WKLC. That is only 64 million out of the 4 Billion (a fraction 0.015) 4-octet ASNs. This can be reduced easily to 256K out of the 4 Billion (a fraction 0.00006) if that is acceptable. There would be 9 octets available in the WKLC for the data part. The 256K number can be further reduced to 1K if desired (with 8 octets available in the WKLC for the data part). Details can be found in the above cited draft [1]. We can discuss further the possibilities if this approach gets some traction. Thanks. Sriram =========================== From: Susan Hares <sha...@ndzh.com> Sent: Friday, June 7, 2024 8:22 PM To: Jeffrey Haas <jh...@pfrc.org>; Robert Raszuk <rob...@raszuk.net> Cc: Job Snijders <job=40fastly....@dmarc.ietf.org>; David Farmer <farmer=40umn....@dmarc.ietf.org>; grow@ietf.org Subject: [GROW]Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-grow-ixp-ext-comms-00.txt And, this was because the Large community authors – wanted it as just a number. Individuals even said, there would be no use for well-known large BGP communities. Sue From: Jeffrey Haas <mailto:jh...@pfrc.org> Sent: Friday, June 7, 2024 5:24 PM To: Robert Raszuk <mailto:rob...@raszuk.net> Cc: Job Snijders <mailto:job=40fastly....@dmarc.ietf.org>; David Farmer <mailto:farmer=40umn....@dmarc.ietf.org>; mailto:grow@ietf.org Subject: [GROW]Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-grow-ixp-ext-comms-00.txt There is no such thing as a well known large bgp community. Jeff _______________________________________________ GROW mailing list -- grow@ietf.org To unsubscribe send an email to grow-le...@ietf.org
