de facto standard or convention to IRR AS-SET representing BGP Roles of rfc9234

Douglas Fischer fischerdouglas at gmail.com
Wed Jun 29 11:24:05 UTC 2022


I begin my questioning by mentioning the recent moves towards
standardization of BGP Roles made formalized initially by RFC 9234, and
also by what is proposed with the ASPA that we should see soon.

And from what I can see, it makes a lot of sense to have an IRR
representation through AS-SET of the list of ASNs that you would have a
neighborhood relationship in each role.

This is done with the objective of being able to make public (if desired)
the type of relationship that each ASN with its Peers, and also to be able
to build, and publish (if desired) in a better elaborated way the Routing
Policies of each ASN.

In view of this, I was wondering if:
Any kind of standardization for the naming of these AS-SETs that would
represent this group of peers had already been considered?

Something that came to my mind would be to use the strings proposed by
RFC9234 for the IANA REGISTRY and use it as a suffix for the AS-SET name.
AS<AS_Number>:AS-ROLE-<Suffix_String_of_Role_Defined_on_rfc9234>

Exemplifying:

as-set: AS65123:AS-ROLE-PROVIDER
descr: ASN list of Transit Upstream(Providers) of AS65123.

as-set: AS65123:AS-ROLE-CUSTOMER
descr: ASN list of Transit Downstream(CUSTOMER) of AS65123.

as-set: AS65123:AS-ROLE-PEER
descr: ASN list of Networks that AS65123 do some kind of peering.

as-set: AS65123:AS-ROLE-RS
descr: ASN list of Route-Servers with which AS65123 has a BGP neighborhood.

as-set: AS65123:AS-ROLE-RS-CLIENT
descr: ASN list of Route-Server Clients the route-servers of AS65123.



Any thoughts or considerations on this?


-- 
Douglas Fernando Fischer
Engº de Controle e Automação
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