The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Well-Known Community Policy Behavior' (draft-ietf-grow-wkc-behavior-08.txt) as Proposed Standard
This document is the product of the Global Routing Operations Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Warren Kumari and Ignas Bagdonas. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-grow-wkc-behavior/ Technical Summary Popular BGP implementations manipulate Well-known Communities differently from one another. This results in difficulties for operators. Network operators are encouraged to deploy consistent community handling across their networks, taking the inconsistent behaviors from the various BGP implementations they operate into consideration. This document recommends specific action items to limit future inconsistency, namely BGP implementors are expected to not create any further inconsistencies from this point forward. Working Group Summary Over the course of multiple months a fair representation of the GROW working group community reviewed this document before and during WGLC. There was active discussion and consensus that the documented inconsistency is an operational issue. While there was no controversy, there was decent discussion on how to rigidly and precisely formulate the normative paragraphs to maybe prevent more inconsistent behaviour in implementations. Consensus was solid. Document Quality The document is clear and well written - it describes how different implementations behave, and how to prevent this issue going forward. Personnel Job Snijders is the document shepherd and GROW working group chair. Warren Kumari is the responsible Area Director. _______________________________________________ GROW mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/grow
