On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 12:08:23PM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 07:53:23PM +0800, 李振强 wrote: > > The length of IPFIX message is sufficient for BGP standard > > communities, since the length of standard community is 4 octets. But > > the sizes of extended community, large community and wide community > > are bigger than the size of standard community. If the working group > > agrees to cover the above all kinds of communities in this draft, do > > you think we should open the discussion for IPFIX > > > > I believe there should be coverage for 1997 as well as the upcoming > large communities.
Agreed. There certainly is merit in covering RFC 1997 (32-bit), RFC 4360 (64-bit) and RFC 8092 (96-bit). For each of these one can fit (at least a few) of such communities in the 16 bits worth of length of the 'outer enveloppe' that is the IPFIX record. Should be pretty straight forward. On the other hand, the current version of the Wide communities draft has a container mechanism, the outer layer at that level also has a 16-bit field, like IPFIX has. One can't fit a 16-bit thing in a 16-bit + with space left for leading / trailing IPFIX related data. I don't immediately have suggestions how to fit this reliably. Kind regards, Job _______________________________________________ OPSAWG mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/opsawg
