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> On Jan 25, 2014, at 1:37 PM, Nick Hilliard <n...@foobar.org> wrote: > >> On 25/01/2014 15:48, Sebastian Spies wrote: >> To make things worse: even if the IXPs ASN is 2-byte, I would assume, >> that RS implementors chose to interpret extended community strings as >> always being in the format 4-byte:2-byte (see RFC5668). > > some ixp operators (e.g. me) are rather enthusiastic about the idea of a > modified form of draft-raszuk-wide-bgp-communities getting more traction. > This would solve this particular problem and many others. > Wide communities is the wrong tool here. You want this: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-idr-as4octet-extcomm-generic-subtype-06 -- Jeff > Nick >