> -----邮件原件----- > 发件人: Robert Raszuk [mailto:[email protected]] > 发送时间: 2010年6月26日 16:48 > 收件人: Xu Xiaohu > 抄送: [email protected] > 主题: Re: [GROW] IPR Disclosure: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd's Statement about > IPR related to draft-ietf-grow-va-02 > > Xu, > > I am not talking about the draft. I am asking about the patent ? > > if you are using BGP communities to carry policy information what is in > there which is novel and which requires IPR ?
The key part of this IPR is to make a BGP router to selectively FIB-install BGP routes according to their BGP community values, together with its own role (i.e., APR or non-APR for a given prefix). Best wishes, Xiaohu > Thx, > R. > > > > Robert, > > > >> -----邮件原件----- > >> 发件人: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 代表 Robert > >> Raszuk > >> 发送时间: 2010年6月25日 19:26 > >> 收件人: [email protected] > >> 主题: Re: [GROW] IPR Disclosure: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd's Statement > > about > >> IPR related to draft-ietf-grow-va-02 > >> > >> Folks, > >> > >> I (as both individual contributor as well as co-author of VA draft) > >> fully agree with Chris that if needed simple use of BGP communities can > >> be applied within given domain to carry any form of local policy across > >> iBGP mesh - that applies to both prefix groups/lists and popular > >> prefixes using VA terminology. > > > >> Reinventing the wheel with some other tool other then those which > >> already have been successfully used for years makes no sense to me. > > > > Agree. Actually the auto-configuration mechanism defined in va-auto draft > > DOES use the BGP community to carry the "can-suppress" tag which determines > > whether or not the prefix should be suppressed. Hence, we are not > > reinventing the wheel, and that is why the draft is just informational, > > rather than standard track. > > > > Best wishes, > > Xiaohu > > > >> With this in mind I am completely not clear what such IPR filing could > >> be about. Are we discussing IPR of carrying local policy by BGP > >> communities ? That I am afraid has a decent prior art to 2007 filing. > >> > >> Many thx, > >> R. _______________________________________________ GROW mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/grow
