Sounds like you need a template based configuration management system and better automation more than you need to inflict an ad-hoc standardization of additional communities on the world.
Owen > On Sep 9, 2020, at 12:21 AM, Robert Raszuk via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote: > > Mark, > > Nope .. it is the other way around. > > It is all easy if you look from your network centric view. > > But if I am connected to 10 ISPs in each POP I have to build 10 different > egress policies, each embedding custom policy, teach NOC to understand it > etc... > > I think if there is a defined way to express prepend N times to my ISP peers > across all uplinks or lower local pref in my ISP network in a same way to > group of ISPs I see the value. > > Best Regards, > R. > > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2020, 06:36 Mark Tinka via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org > <mailto:nanog@nanog.org>> wrote: > > > On 8/Sep/20 23:22, Douglas Fischer via NANOG wrote: > >> Exactly Mike! >> >> The Idea would be to define some base levels, to make the creations of >> route-filtering simpler to everyone in the world. >> And what comes beyond that, is in charge of each autonomous system. >> >> It would make the scripting and templates easier and would avoid fat-fingers. > > Are we saying that what individual operators design for their own networks is > "complicated", and that coalescing around a single "de facto" standard would > simplify that? > > Mark.
