Hi John, Jeff,

Could you please confirm that you are fine with the revised text below or if 
you have any further input?

Thanks,
Neeraj

> On Oct 14, 2020, at 11:24 AM, Neeraj Malhotra <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hi John, Jeff,
> 
> FYI - latest revision of this draft corrects the BW attribute to be 
> transitive inline with Ali's explanation below: 
> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-bess-evpn-unequal-lb-07.txt. 
> Please do let us know if there are any further concerns.
> 
> 4.2.  EVPN Link Bandwidth Extended Community
>  
>    A new EVPN Link Bandwidth extended community is defined to signal
>    local ES link bandwidth to remote PEs.  This extended-community is
>    defined of type 0x06 (EVPN).  IANA is requested to assign a sub-type
>    value of 0x10 for the EVPN Link bandwidth extended community, of type
>    0x06 (EVPN).  EVPN Link Bandwidth extended community is defined as
>    transitive.
>  
>    Link bandwidth extended community described in [BGP-LINK-BW] for
>    layer 3 VPNs was considered for re-use here.  This Link bandwidth
>    extended community is however defined in [BGP-LINK-BW] as optional
>    non-transitive.  Since it is not possible to change deployed behavior
>    of extended-community defined in [BGP-LINK-BW], it was decided to
>    define a new one.  In inter-AS scenarios, link-bandwidth needs to be
>    signaled to eBGP neighbors.  When signaled across AS boundary, this
>    attribute can be used to achieve optimal load-balancing towards
>    source PEs from a different AS.  This is applicable both when next-
>    hop is changed or unchanged across AS boundaries.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Neeraj
> 
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 11:14 PM Ali Sajassi (sajassi) 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> John, Jeff:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> During the presentation of draft-ietf-bess-evpn-unequal-lb -03 at the BESS 
>> WG meeting, you had a question/concern regarding why we are defining a new 
>> EC if we are doing conditional transitive. First, I’d like to make a 
>> correction to the preso by saying that the transitivity is not conditional 
>> and we will correct this in the next rev of the draft. So, the EC is simply 
>> transitive at all time. Given the EC defined in 
>> draft-ietf-idr-link-bandwidth-07.txt is non-transitive, we cannot use this 
>> EC for our application. That’s why we are defining a new one.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Ali
>> 
>>  
>> 
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