Hi Randy,

>From: Randy Bush [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 4:04 
>AM
>
>being lazy, i really wanted to spec communities.  but communities are
>too small to hold a reasonable hash. 

Regular community may be too small to protect from attacks but probably not to 
protect against unintentional errors, which is the goal of the draft as per the 
abstract.
That's why IMO, the draft should clearly states what are the VPN customers' 
requirements in term of protection and how much the draft address thoses 
requirements.
In addition, a few uses cases would be useful to better understand the issues 
the draft is proposing to solve.

Extended community are bigger (6 or 7 octets). Not working on crypto, I don't 
know if that's big enough to sign an IP prefix. 

> and they are not necessarily transitive.

If you pick the transitive flavor, I assume that the SP(s) will not 
specifically filter out the customers' communities as the SP is supposed to 
provide a transparent IP VPN service.
(and we could argue that the "L3VPN Origination BGP Path" Attribute is also not 
guaranteed to be transitive (e.g. to protect from BGP session failure caused by 
incorrect handling of BGP attributes, SP could filter out the attributes)

Bruno

>
>randy

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