I am not suggesting TLV format. Just few optional and predefind keywords for those who like your peer to be able to parse it.
I am not taking away anything you are proposing just adding few words which can help. What is the problem of accepting it ? Thx R. On Nov 20, 2016 21:02, "Neil J. McRae" <[email protected]> wrote: I would be deploying automation to take care of network problems/issues/whatever whether I worked at BT or I was the admin of a network with four and a half nodes. We have the world and his wife automating and innovating on top of -our- internet platform and we are still encouraging behaviours like it was 1992 (I'd say like mission control in the 60s but I think they had more automation back then!) oh well if we just want to be the dumb pipe providers! > On 20 Nov 2016, at 18:34, Gaurab Raj Upadhaya <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 11/19/16 9:58 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: >> Regarding the I-D, there are ~55000 asns visible in the dfz, of >> which ~6000-7000 are non-leaf, and probably less than a thousand >> where bgp session automation makes financial sense. No doubt, >> as5400/2856 would be in the top bracket of these and it would make >> sense for your tooling teams to automate the hell out of nearly >> everything, which would militate against accepting free-form advisory >> shutdown notices like this - but then again, BT is atypical in the >> general scheme of things. Whether you like it or not, the long tail >> of ASNs would benefit from a simple mechanism of this form. > > that sums it up neatly for me. I also think that adding complexity in > the free form at this stage may limit implementation and the numerous > ways in which it can be used for automation. > > I see these quite similar to TXT records in DNS. and so, I do think that > at some point after this has been implemented, we'll need to document > widely adopted structures in a BCP. > > -gaurab > > > _______________________________________________ GROW mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/grow
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