Jorge,

> On Jun 24, 2024, at 8:04 AM, Jorge Rabadan (Nokia) <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> I understand that for this D-PATH feature that the providers should be
>> "mutually cooperating" and thus this may be a trivial or even silly concern.
>> But if it ever becomes competing providers, this becomes a conversation
>> about money.
>>  
> [jorge] ok, I think ask the chairs for 5 minutes at IETF120 to discuss this 
> and bring awareness. For the moment we can leave it as is, since there are 
> implementations doing this. Thanks for the discussion.

I'll try to be available for that discussion.  However, as usual, bess has 
conflicts with other work of interest for me.

>> It'd be helpful if you did.  I'm glad I came to the appropriate conclusion
>> as a semi-informed reader, but for these sorts of steps having the algorithm
>> explicitly written out can remove doubt.
> 
> [jorge] hopefully the text makes it better now:
>  
> “Then routes with the numerically lowest left-most Domain-ID are preferred 
> (only the Domain-ID is compared, and not the ISF_SAFI_TYPE). Hence, routes 
> not tied for the numerically lowest left-most Domain-ID are removed from 
> consideration. When comparing two Domain-IDs, the two six byte values are 
> compared starting with the Global Admin field. The lowest value in the first 
> differing byte between the two six byte values, is considered to belong to 
> the "numerically lowest Domain-ID"”

This works.

>> Some explicit text would be appreciated.  While escape isn't expected, we're
>> partially having some of this review because escape has been observed from
>> existing implementations.
> 
> [jorge] OK, added some text in the security considerations section, and also 
> in section 4. We can always improve it at a later version.

Part of the additional text you've added is this:
"As an additional security mechanism, a PE following this specification that 
receives an EVPN route from a non-upgraded PE should discard the route via 
policy if the route contains the D-PATH attribute."

How do you tell if the PE is "non-upgraded"?

Note that such considerations were part of the reason I urged the dpath authors 
towards a BGP capability. :-)

-- Jeff

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