Hi,

>  the advisory nature of the community is still useful for humans when
looking at the route table.

Yes I fully agree with this.

In fact this is why I asked to exactly describe rules for
attaching/originating it.

Same prefix advertised from different locations in the topology is pretty
common in enterprises. Such prefix can be /24 or /64 or less specific.
There can be one host route within it acting as true anycast host/service.

Thx

On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 9:06 PM David Farmer <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 1:47 PM Robert Raszuk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> WHAT? I'm suggesting that you not treat routes with the ANYCAST community
>>> learned from R&E peers as if they are R&E routes, but as if they are
>>> normal internet routes.
>>>
>>
>> If this community should be ignored when arriving via some peers then
>> what is the point to keep it in the UPDATE MSG  from those peers ?
>>
>
> I'm not suggesting ignoring the community from R&E peers, I'm suggesting a
> lower local preference or dropping the route when learned from an R&E peer.
> Further, regardless of the action taken in your routing policy, or even no
> policy action at all, the advisory nature of the community is still useful
> for humans when looking at the route table.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>> I don't think you want to require or even recommend the removal of the
>>> ANYCAST community at an EBGP boundary.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 1:19 PM Robert Raszuk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi David,
>>>>
>>>> Your case works only when subject routes coming over different R&E
>>>> network would not carry such community. Proposed NO_EXPORT does not help as
>>>> it would block advertisement of the entire prefix marked as such.
>>>>
>>>> So to fulfil your observation the draft should perhaps suggest that
>>>> ANYCAST community SHOULD (or maybe even MUST) be removed when propagating
>>>> routes over egress EBGP (from the perspective of first upstream transit).
>>>>
>>>> Many thx,
>>>> R.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 8:08 PM David Farmer <farmer=
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I think this is a useful proposal and I support it moving forward.
>>>>>
>>>>> Another use case;
>>>>>
>>>>> In the Research and Education (R&E) networking community, it is
>>>>> commonplace to set a higher local preference for routes learned from
>>>>> another R&E network, on the premise that these R&E paths will be higher
>>>>> bandwidth and/or lower congestion, even if the AS-Path is longer. However,
>>>>> if an Anycast prefix is included by another R&E network this can result in
>>>>> preferring a remote version of an Anycast service over a more local 
>>>>> version
>>>>> of the same Anycast service.  In this scenario, it is not uncommon for the
>>>>> remote Anycast service to be very remote, such as on a different 
>>>>> continent,
>>>>> thereby defeating the purpose of Anycast. This community would easily 
>>>>> allow
>>>>> these Anycast prefixes to either be set to normal (default) local
>>>>> preference, to be set to a lower local preference than normal assuming 
>>>>> they
>>>>> will be remote, or even to drop the remote Anycast route altogether
>>>>> assuming they will. be very remote.
>>>>>
>>>>> Related to the trust discussion, I will note; that using this
>>>>> community to signal a lower preference for, or even dropping, a remote
>>>>> Anycast route is less of a trust issue than using the community to signal 
>>>>> a
>>>>> higher preference for a local Anycast route. That is if the community is
>>>>> used to demote routes, it is less likely to be abused by someone seeking 
>>>>> to
>>>>> increase traffic toward them.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 5:40 AM Maximilian Wilhelm <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hey folks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> after some discussion at RIPE84 we took the time to formalize a draft
>>>>>> to define a well-known BGP community to indicate a given prefix is
>>>>>> carrying Anycast traffic. The intent is to allow ISPs to do well
>>>>>> informed TE, especially in cases where they want to diverge from the
>>>>>> hot potato principle.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You can find the draft at
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wilhelm-grow-anycast-community/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Happy to share this at the upcoming meeting and hear your thoughts!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks and best,
>>>>>> Max
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