Yes I mentioned this case in one of the subsequent emails - LG can be per
region etc ... You just register not one by many such looking glass server
addresses. Some may be independent .. some may be a pool of servers under
same IP.

Thx

On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 5:59 AM Alejandro Acosta <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello, I guess you have already mentioned this, however I have not found
> it yet. Please consider many AS have many different views. That's it.
>
> Alejandro,
>
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2021, 8:03 AM Robert Raszuk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> > for example: 23456.lookingglass for AS 23456.
>>
>>
>> I was just about to propose to define a notion of well known URL for
>> looking glass.
>>
>>
>> Let's grab bgp.io domain (it seems available) and allow each domain to
>> submit their IP to well known name mapping. In fact looking glasses may be
>> just one of many such well known tools to help with operational aspects of
>> the Internet.
>>
>>
>> In such cases no signalling would be necessary at all and you can always
>> go to 23456.lookingglass.bgp.io with an obvious alias (23456.lg.bgp.io)
>> to see if your routes made it via peer's policy/best path etc ... In case
>> ASN has more then one LG in each region same thing ... you define a few
>> such addresses to indicate each server or LG server pool.
>>
>>
>> Thx,
>> R.
>>
>>
>> PS. However if we want to down the BGP inline signalling for this I
>> recommend we take a look at:
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-idr-operational-message-00  Seems
>> to me like defining new TLV there would be very good fit for what is being
>> proposed here.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 7:55 AM Jakob Heitz (jheitz) <jheitz=
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> This is a great thing to do, but I would not use a BGP capability to do
>>> it.
>>>
>>> The capability is signaled only in the BGP OPEN message, at the start of
>>> the session.
>>>
>>> Changes cannot be signaled without bouncing the session.
>>>
>>> The BGP capability is only exchanged with neighbors.
>>>
>>> Perhaps we could do it with a new address family or
>>>
>>> standardize the form of the URL, say invent a new top level domain:
>>> .lookingglass
>>>
>>> and then the URL could be the ASN followed by the TLD, for example:
>>>
>>> 23456.lookingglass for AS 23456.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Jakob.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* GROW <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of * Rayhaan
>>> Jaufeerally (IETF)
>>> *Sent:* Saturday, April 24, 2021 6:38 AM
>>> *To:* [email protected]
>>> *Subject:* [GROW] BGP Looking Glass Capability
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear GROW chairs and participants,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I would like to propose draft-jaufeerally-bgp-lg-cap-00 (
>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jaufeerally-bgp-lg-cap/) as a
>>> mechanism for in-band dissemination of looking glass endpoints in BGP,
>>> using a new OPEN message capability.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The rationale behind this is to facilitate automation around eBGP
>>> peering, for example  to make it possible to automatically detect if the
>>> peer has accepted some routes which are expected to be accepted.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm aware that the underlying RFC8522 is an informational RFC and leaves
>>> some details unspecified for the response format (i.e. a schema for the
>>> queries/responses) but I believe that can be further refined in other works
>>> independent to this proposal.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I would like to hear what the WG thinks, if this is a reasonable
>>> proposal which fits into the broader charter of GROW?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Rayhaan
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