Heads up: Long AS-sets announced in the next few days

Fri Mar 4 01:18:04 UTC 2005

* lorenzo at ripe.net (Lorenzo Colitti) [Fri 04 Mar 2005, 02:09 CET]:
> As far as the RFC is concerned, the AS-set is part of the AS-path. See 
> Section 4.3, which says the AS-path is "a well-known mandatory attribute 
> that is composed of a sequence of AS path segments. Each AS path segment 
> is represented by a triple <path segment type, path segment length, path 
> segment value>," where path segment type is 1 for AS_SEQUENCE and 2 for 
> AS_SET.

I stand corrected.

> The RFC also says:
> 
>>      An AS_SET implies that the destinations listed in the NLRI can be
>>      reached through paths that traverse at least some of the
>>      constituent autonomous systems.
> 
> which is exactly what we are doing.

Which would be planning to advertise routes with attributes claiming a
topology that does not conform to reality?

	-- Niels.

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