On 27 October 2016 at 16:47, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote: > I don’t mind the move to 32, but I hope the vendors are getting appropriately > smacked for squatting and that those attributes are not allowed to be > misappropriated by the vendors. > > We have a standards process for a reason and vendors simply squatting on > numbers is a violation of that process which cannot be allowed to stand > unless we wish to establish that as precedent and simply allow vendors to > claim numbers as they wish. > > This already happened with the BSD community in their implementation of a > pseudo-VRRP like capability and now two different vendors have abused BGP > path attributes. > > This is not a good path for us to continue. > > Owen
Here here! Name and shame, it is not acceptable! James.