Hi Jeff,

<No hats>

On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 10:54:54PM -0400, Jeff Haas wrote:
> I’m at least 90%, “Meh, whatever “ for the
> proposal as long as it doesn’t become a recommendation to filter
> the extended communities by default.  For purposes of the adoption poll,
> consider this a conditional abstention. 
> 
> The last 10% of my opinion is formed by the fact that extended communities
> have built-in scoping whereas large communities do not. 
> 
> There’s room for legitimate griping about policy tools to use
> extended communities, but those are implementation details. 


Re-reading the abstract, I can imagine the scope maybe appearing wider
than the authors perhaps intended.

The draft guidance is intended to be narrow: please avoid use of &
filter extended communities *at IXP Route Servers*. The target audience
of this draft BCP are IXP Route Server operators.

Does the above change your position in any way?

Kind regards,

Job



> 
> Jeff. 
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> > On Mar 11, 2024, at 15:13, Christopher Morrow 
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > Howdy WG folks!
> > The authors of: draft-spaghetti-grow-bcp-ext-comms
> >  (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-spaghetti-grow-bcp-ext-comms/)
> > 
> > are interested in seeking WG Adoption for their new missive. The
> > abstract is included here-in:
> > 
> >  "This document outlines a recommendation to the Internet operational
> >   community to avoid the use of BGP Extended Communities in BGP
> >   announcements.  It includes guidance for both Internet Service
> >   Provider networks and Internet Exchange Points (IXPs).  This approach
> >   aims to help the global Internet routing system's performance and
> >   help protect Route Server participants against misconfigurations."
> > 
> > Please give this document a read and consider if it should be adopted
> > for further work/use/revision/happy-fun-balling in our working-group.
> > 
> > Ideally we'll close this adoption call out 4/8/2024 (the 8th day of
> > the 4th month of the year 2 thousand and twenty 4)
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > -chris
> > co-chair N of M
> > 
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