I also approve publication.
Thank you,
W

On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 5:49 PM, Karen Moore <kmo...@staff.rfc-editor.org>
wrote:

> Authors,
>
> We have also noted Sriram’s approval on the AUTH48 status page (https://
> www.rfc-editor.org/auth48/rfc9774).
>
> Best regards,
> RFC Editor/kc
>
> On May 6, 2025, at 2:46 PM, Karen Moore <kmo...@staff.rfc-editor.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hi John (AD), Jeffrey, Lilia, Sriram, and Warren,
>
> Thank you for your replies. We have updated the commit for "[Analysis]"
> and have noted Lilia’s approval on the AUTH48 status page (https://www.
> rfc-editor.org/auth48/rfc9774).
>
> We will await comments regarding the suggested updates to “traditional"
> before making any changes.
>
> —Files—
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>
> The updated output files are here:
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>
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>
> Best regards,
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>
> On May 6, 2025, at 1:42 PM, Jeffrey Haas <jh...@pfrc.org> wrote:
>
> ...
> I could be fine with this. Let's see what the other authors think.
>
> If you had a terminology section, that would be the natural place to do
> this, but you don’t, and I don’t think we should introduce one at this late
> date.
>
> Agreed.
>
> -- Jeff
>
> On May 6, 2025, at 1:29 PM, John Scudder <j...@juniper.net> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> About the use of “traditional”, I looked at the current version, and I
> have a suggestion. After reading the text with any of the suggested
> adjectives, none of them fills me with happiness. I think that’s because
> “brief” is not a defined term of art in the BGP document set, so the idea
> that we can qualify it with some adjective and have that speak
> unambiguously to the reader is a bit of a reach. That is, IMO,
> “traditional” is neither necessary nor sufficient for maximum clarity.
>
> My proposal is to fix the problem by being clearer about our terminology
> in Section 5, as in,
>
> OLD:
> it is typically referred to as "brief" aggregation in implementations.
> Brief aggregation results in an AS_PATH that has
>
> NEW:
> it is typically referred to as "brief" aggregation in implementations.
> That terminology is adopted here: in this document, brief aggregation
> refers to what is described in this section, in contrast to consistent
> brief aggregation as described in Section 5.2. Brief aggregation results in
> an AS_PATH that has
>
> And then you can remove “traditional” throughout, without loss of
> precision. You will already have stated explicitly what “brief” means, and
> have warned the reader that “consistent” is the adjective whose presence or
> absence distinguishes the two variants.
>
> (Another alternative would be wherever you use “traditional brief”,
> replace it with something like “brief (as described in Section 5)”, but
> that ends up being more ponderous.)
>
> If you had a terminology section, that would be the natural place to do
> this, but you don’t, and I don’t think we should introduce one at this late
> date.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> —John
>
> On May 6, 2025, at 8:07 AM, Hannachi, Lilia (Assoc) via auth48archive <
> auth48archive@rfc-editor.org> wrote:
>
> RFC Editor:
>
> Approving for publication
>
> To approve your RFC for publication, please reply to this email stating
> that you approve this RFC for publication. Please use ‘REPLY ALL’, as all
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>
> I approve this RFC for publication.
>
> Regards
> Lilia
>
> On May 5, 2025, at 8:41 PM, Sriram, Kotikalapudi (Fed) <kotikalapudi.
> sri...@nist.gov> wrote:
>
> Hi Karen,
>
> Thank you for the help from you and all the RFC Editors.
>
> I agree with Jeff’s comments.
>
> About use of the word “traditional”, I lean in the direction of what
> Warren has recommended: “I think that "traditional" is the better word
> here,…”
>
> About the following :
>
> 9) <!-- [rfced] FYI: We updated the reference entry for [Analysis] to
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>
> …..
>
> Current:
> [Analysis] "Detailed analysis of AS_SETs in BGP updates", commit eb0fc22,
> March 2022,
> <https://github.com/ksriram25/IETF/blob/main/Detailed-
> AS_SET-analysis.txt>.
> -->
>
> No problem. The change you have made is acceptable. I have added the
> authors names and contact info at the top of the file in GitHub. Please
> update the commit to ef3f4a9 in the citation.
>
> I have looked at the whole updated document, and assuming the above change
> (commit #) would incorporated, I approve this RFC for publication.
>
> Sriram
>
> On May 3, 2025, at 1:46 PM, Warren Kumari <war...@kumari.net> wrote:
>
> I agree with all of Jeff's comments, other than the change from
> "Traditional" to "Conventional"
>
> To me, "conventional" means doing something according to convention - the
> commonly agreed upon manner. For example, "By convention, we state
> temperature in degrees Celsius". This is what we do now / today.
>
> "Traditionally", on the other hand, implies something which we either used
> to do, or something done for a long time — "Traditionally, each town had a
> baker and a smith", or "Traditional Swedish architecture is characterized
> …".
>
> Basically, convention + time == tradition.
>
> The total of the Appendix B is "Examples of Consistent and Inconsistent
> BGP Origin-AS Generated by Traditional Brief Aggregation" - this is meaning
> "using the system which has been used for a long time", not "using the
> current convention".
>
> I think that "traditional" is the better word here, but this certainly is
> not a hill that I'm willing to die on… W
>
> On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 4:08 PM, Karen Moore <kmo...@staff.rfc-editor.org>
> wrote: Hi Jeff,
>
> Thank you for your quick reply. We have updated our files accordingly.
> Please see a few clarifications below.
>
> 1) Note that we added “following” to the text below for clarity. Please
> let us know if this is agreeable.
>
> Original:
> Brief aggregation results in an AS_PATH that has
> the property (from [RFC4271], Section 9.2.2.2):
>
> Current:
> Brief aggregation results in an AS_PATH that has
> the following property (from [RFC4271], Section 9.2.2.2):
>
> 2) FYI: We will await feedback from your coauthor(s) regarding the
> reference entry for [Analysis] and before potentially replacing
> “traditional” with “conventional”.
>
> —Files—
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>
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>
> Please contact us with any further updates or with your approval of the
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>
> For the AUTH48 status of this document, please see: https://www.
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>
> Best regards,
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>
> On May 2, 2025, at 8:40 AM, Jeff Haas <jhaas=40juniper....@dmarc.ietf.org>
> wrote:
>
> Editor,
>
> On 5/1/25, 18:59, "rfc-edi...@rfc-editor.org <mailto:rfc-editor@
> rfc-editor.org>" <rfc-edi...@rfc-editor.org <mailto:rfc-editor@rfc-editor.
> org>> wrote:
>
> While reviewing this document during AUTH48, please resolve (as necessary)
> the following questions, which are also in the XML file.
>
> 1) <!--[rfced] May we update the short title that spans the top of the PDF
> file to more closely match the document title as shown below?
>
> Original:
> AS_SET, AS_CONFED_SET use deprecation
>
> Perhaps:
> Deprecation of AS_SET and AS_CONFED_SET
>
> I agree with this change.
>
> 2) <!-- [rfced] Please insert any keywords (beyond those that appear in
> the title) for use on https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rfc-editor.
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> .
>
> The keywords in the title are sufficient, in my opinion.
>
> a) Because this document updates RFC 4271, please review the errata
> reported for RFC 4271
> (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.
> php?rfc=4271__;!!NEt6yMaO-gk!Dp2HeBp3w6hEJqydFHmDG2ctOp3E3U5-jKldZm2cJ-zQ8WGQvP88RS5K0zQomFe84h84HwPSACGpA6jAVq9GQiA$
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> php?rfc=4271__;!!NEt6yMaO-gk!Dp2HeBp3w6hEJqydFHmDG2ctOp3E3U5-jKldZm2cJ-zQ8WGQvP88RS5K0zQomFe84h84HwPSACGpA6jAVq9GQiA$>
> ) and let us know if you confirm our opinion that none of the errata are
> relevant to the content of this document.
>
> No errata appear to be relevant to this update.
>
> b) Because this document updates RFC 5065, please review the errata
> reported for RFC 5065
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> ) and let us know if you confirm our opinion that none of the errata are
> relevant to the content of this document.
>
> The errata vs. RFC 5575 are primarily grammar nits. We'll focus on the
> text in this document.
>
> 4) <!--[rfced] Should "BCP 172" be added as an entry under the Normative
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> it's the only RFC in BCP 172? Please let us know your preference.
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> I would recommend keeping BCP 172, even though there is currently only one
> RFC in that BCP. This permits updates to the BCP to be carried through in
> documents that cite it. Thus, I believe the changes below covering the BCP
> are things we don't want to do.
>
> Further, keeping the current break-out of RFC 6472 does also capture that
> at th time of the publication of this document that BCP 172 contained only
> a single entry.
>
> Abstract/Introduction
>
> Original:
> BCP 172 (i.e., RFC 6472) recommends not using AS_SET and AS_CONFED_SET
> AS_PATH segment types in the Border Gateway Protocol
> (BGP).
>
> BCP 172 [RFC6472] makes a recommendation for not using AS_SET (see
> [RFC4271]) and AS_CONFED_SET (see [RFC5065]) AS_PATH path segment types in
> the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
>
> Perhaps:
> RFC 6472 recommends not using AS_SET and AS_CONFED_SET AS_PATH segment
> types in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
>
> [RFC6472] makes a recommendation for not using AS_SET [RFC4271] and
> AS_CONFED_SET [RFC5065] AS_PATH path segment types in the Border Gateway
> Protocol (BGP).
> -->
>
> 5) <!--[rfced] For conciseness, we updated "possibility of ambiguity" to
> "any ambiguity" as shown below. Please let us know of any objections.
>
> Original:
> In particular, the prohibition of AS_SETs and AS_CONFED_SETs removes the
> possibility of ambiguity about origin AS in RPKI-based route origin
> validation (RPKI-ROV) [RFC6811]
> [RFC6907] [RFC9319].
>
> Current:
> In particular, the prohibition of AS_SETs and AS_CONFED_SETs removes any
> ambiguity about the origin AS in RPKI-based Route Origin Validation
> (RPKI-ROV) [RFC6811] [RFC6907] [RFC9319].
>
> I agree with this change.
>
> 6) <!--[rfced] FYI: In order to make the list parallel in Section 3, we
> updated the second bullet point as shown below.
>
> Original:
> * MUST NOT advertise BGP UPDATE messages containing AS_SETs or
> AS_CONFED_SETs, and
>
> * Upon reception of BGP UPDATE messages containing AS_SETs or
> AS_CONFED_SETs in the AS_PATH or AS4_PATH [RFC6793], MUST use the
> "treat-as-withdraw" error handling behavior as per [RFC7606].
>
> Current:
> * MUST NOT advertise BGP UPDATE messages containing AS_SETs or
> AS_CONFED_SETs and
>
> * MUST use the "treat-as-withdraw" error handling behavior per
> [RFC7606] upon reception of BGP UPDATE messages containing AS_SETs or
> AS_CONFED_SETs in the AS_PATH or AS4_PATH [RFC6793].
>
> I agree with this change.
>
> 7) <!--[rfced] Please clarify what "the property" refers to in the
> following sentence.
>
> Original:
> Brief aggregation results in an AS_PATH that has
> the property (from [RFC4271], Section 9.2.2.2):
>
> The immediately following paragraph (with citation bars) is intended to be
> the property in question. The intention here is to discuss that when using
> brief aggregation, the resulting AS_PATH is what is discussed in the
> citation.
>
> 8) <!--[rfced] We updated the following sentence for clarity as shown
> below. Please let us know of any objections.
>
> Original:
> As discussed in Section 5.1 of [RFC4632], the presence of both less
> specific and more specific destinations has the possibility to create
> forwarding loops between networks.
>
> Current:
> When both less specific and more specific destinations are present, it's
> possible to create forwarding loops between networks, as discussed in
> Section 5.1 of [RFC4632].
>
> I agree with this change.
>
> 9) <!-- [rfced] FYI: We updated the reference entry for [Analysis] to
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> ).
>
> Original:
> [Analysis] Hannachi, L. and K. Sriram, "Detailed analysis of AS_SETs in
> BGP updates", NIST Robust Inter-domain Routing Project Website , October
> 2019,
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/ksriram25/IETF/blob/main/
> Detailed-AS_SET-__;!!NEt6yMaO-gk!Dp2HeBp3w6hEJqydFHmDG2ctOp3E3U5-jKldZm2cJ-zQ8WGQvP88RS5K0zQomFe84h84HwPSACGpA6jA4PAfbOM$
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/ksriram25/IETF/blob/main/
> Detailed-AS_SET-__;!!NEt6yMaO-gk!Dp2HeBp3w6hEJqydFHmDG2ctOp3E3U5-jKldZm2cJ-zQ8WGQvP88RS5K0zQomFe84h84HwPSACGpA6jA4PAfbOM$>
> analysis.txt>.
>
> Current:
> [Analysis] "Detailed analysis of AS_SETs in BGP updates", commit eb0fc22,
> March 2022,
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/ksriram25/IETF/blob/main/
> Detailed-__;!!NEt6yMaO-gk!Dp2HeBp3w6hEJqydFHmDG2ctOp3E3U5-jKldZm2cJ-zQ8WGQvP88RS5K0zQomFe84h84HwPSACGpA6jAQ1A-SUw$
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/ksriram25/IETF/blob/main/
> Detailed-__;!!NEt6yMaO-gk!Dp2HeBp3w6hEJqydFHmDG2ctOp3E3U5-jKldZm2cJ-zQ8WGQvP88RS5K0zQomFe84h84HwPSACGpA6jAQ1A-SUw$>
> AS_SET-analysis.txt>.
>
> I see that the style guide intentionally discards the authors and title.
> This seems disrespectful of citing the authors of the work and is
> problematic on that front.
>
> Since this work is Sriram and NISTs, I will let him comment on his desired
> disposition of this point. One option for him to evaluate is whether
> there's other places this information may be archived and made available
> for citation in the RFC that doesn't lose attribution.
>
> 10) <!--[rfced] We updated the following sentence for clarity. Please let
> us know if it changes the intended meaning.
>
> Original:
> Presented here is an illustration of how an AS_SET is not used when
> aggregating and still data-plane route loops are avoided.
>
> Current:
> The illustration presented below shows how an AS_SET is not used when
> aggregating and how data plane route loops are avoided.
>
> I agree with this change.
>
> 11) <!--[rfced] Regarding Appendices B.1, B.2, and B.3, would it be
> clearer and easier to read if an introductory sentence was included in each
> section (and thus each section title was shortened) as shown below? Please
> review.
>
> Shortening the section titles unfortunately reduces clarity. I'd recommend
> against this change.
>
> Additionally, we note that some lines include a period and some don't. May
> we add a period after each sentence for consistency?
>
> In general, adding periods for consistency is fine. The place I do not
> recommend adding such periods is under the list of Routes.
>
> 12) <!-- [rfced] FYI: We have added an expansion for the following
> abbreviation per Section 3.6 of RFC 7322 ("RFC Style Guide"). Please review
> this expansion and each expansion in the document carefully to ensure
> correctness.
>
> Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)
>
> I agree with this change.
>
> 13) <!-- [rfced] Please review the "Inclusive Language" portion of the
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> > and let us know if any changes are needed. Updates of this nature
> typically result in more precise language, which is helpful for readers.
>
> For example, please consider whether the following should be updated:
>
> - traditional
>
> While the NIST website <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://web.archive.
> org/web/20250214092458/
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> author-instructions#table1> indicates that this term is potentially biased,
> it is also ambiguous. "Tradition" is a subjective term, as it is not the
> same for everyone.
> -->
>
> Understood. In this context, it's my opinion that it doesn't run afoul of
> inclusivity issues. However, the synonym "conventional" I think conveys the
> same meaning and might be able to be used in its place if there's concerns.
> Sriram to comment on the final choice.
>
> Juniper Business Use Only
>
>
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