PCRE or death. Tell me if I am wrong, but I thought PCRE was the most widely 
used regex lib these day anyways. I also thought it was already in Junos.

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> On Aug 19, 2021, at 7:56 AM, Jeffrey Haas <jh...@pfrc.org> wrote:
> 
> ORFs are a challenging feature and haven't gotten a lot of deployment for a 
> number of reasons.
> 
> At a high level, they're a very coarse filter.  Since each new ORF type adds 
> to the logical AND condition, you start having to be more and more permissive 
> in what you permit in the policy.  Since a significant amount of common ISP 
> policies require matching things in tuples, this doesn't translate super well 
> into many types of automatically generated ORFs.
> 
> The ext-community-orf feature was effectively supplanted by Rt-Constrain (RFC 
> 4684).
> 
> The as-path ORF was challenging because different vendors have different 
> ideas about what "regex" means and what the input tokens are.  Consider for 
> example Juniper vs. Cisco regex matching.  The abstract fix would have been 
> to define a regex that is for the feature.  I half suspect if people pushed 
> on this these days, they'd want PCRE. :-)
> 
> The RD-ORF work is part of some ongoing discussion about how to deal with VRF 
> overwhelm (prefix-limit exceed).
> 
> -- Jeff (IDR co-chair)
> 
>> On Aug 18, 2021, at 1:10 PM, Douglas Fischer <fischerdoug...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello!
>> 
>> I also found a recent draft(expires Novembre 2021) about using Route 
>> Distinguisher as a Value on ORF.
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-idr-rd-orf/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Em qua., 18 de ago. de 2021 às 11:41, Humberto Galiza 
>> <humbertogal...@gmail.com> escreveu:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Is anyone aware of any vendor that supports Outbound Route Filtering
>>> (ORF) based on anything other than prefix-lists?
>>> 
>>> I found these two old IETF drafts (both expired :-/) which supported
>>> the idea of filtering based on community and as-path respectively, but
>>> I wasn't able to understand if they were ever discussed at the WG and
>>> if there was any outcome of the discussion (I suspect the authors are
>>> no longer even working with the mentioned companies in the drafts):
>>> 
>>> - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-chen-bgp-ext-community-orf-02
>>> - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-idr-aspath-orf-13
>>> 
>>> Any info is very much appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Douglas Fernando Fischer
>> Engº de Controle e Automação
> 

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