Hey Saku, > From: Saku Ytti <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2019 3:29 PM > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 5:19 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From past experience my assumptions would be more along the lines of if > it's not mainstream there's a higher likelihood that it might trigger > exceptions > in code. > > My point is, let it break. Don't pre-emptively drop things that you don't know > to be harmful, but where dropping definitely is harmful. > > After risk has realised you have more data about the risk. If it has never > realised you have no idea. If we extrapolate this culture of fear, we will > only > have HTTPS open, nothing else, and we have to build then next-gen stuff as > an overlay using HTTPS transport. > Sure I get it it's a very valid and a noble point, But what you're asking is let it break (yes potentially -it's just probability until it happens) for 1000s of subs just so that one kiddo has a working niche feature, I can already see what board has to say about that -screw that kid we have money to make there's our brand at stake (yes again just potentially -it's just probability until it actually happens) -but you'll already know what they're gonna say. So yes on a technical level I agree with you, but on a commercial level it's a tough case to make.
And the same logic applies to the other thread around BGP communities filtering... adam
