Route Server Filters at IXPs and 4-byte ASNs

Wed Feb 5 03:58:43 UTC 2014

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On Jan 25, 2014, at 5:50 PM, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:

>> http://tools.ietf.org/search/draft-raszuk-wide-bgp-communities-03
>> To me, that draft looks hugely complicated, like everything you
>> could possibly think of was thrown in.
> 
> <aol>
> 
> do we have a chat with robert or push an alternative so that the wg is
> pushed to compromise?
> 

The token to simplify is currently mine. The messy bit was an attempt to try to push policy algebra into the packet format. A hallway conversation with a certain German gentleman helped disabuse me about the wisdom of doing that. 

Cleaning up the document will take probably another two rounds but a terse description of where it should be going is "template based structured communities". 

-- Jeff

> randy