Thanks John. That's the comment I was fishing for. -- Jakob Heitz.
> -----Original Message----- > From: John G. Scudder [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 2:06 PM > To: Jakob Heitz > Cc: Hannes Gredler; sidr wg list > Subject: Re: [sidr] origin attribute > > On Oct 23, 2012, at 12:13 PM, Jakob Heitz > <[email protected]> wrote: > > "origin" does not seem to be an attribute subject to change. > > In theory you're right, if the attribute were being used as > originally envisioned. In practice, as Warren points out, > you're not because it's not. People do set Origin once the > route is in flight, as a handy low-order policy thing they > can fiddle with. > > BGPSec protecting Origin would stomp on current operational > practice, so it would need to be justified more strongly than > "seemed like a good idea at the time". > > --John > _______________________________________________ sidr mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sidr
