Randy,

because the goal of this draft can already be reached simply through use
of existing means, i do not support publication.  i am not strongly
opposed.  it's just one more bit of ietf work that is not obviously
needed.

Here are the three reasons that may refresh our mind on why after 4 years this 
draft is still important to move forward to the IESG:

1) Scope beyond BGP communities:  This document creates an IANA registry for 
the "BGP origin validation state". This makes the document the standard for the 
encoding of this state (valid/invalid/not found). We are already used it as 
reference for the IPFIX Information Element 294 (for which we went through all 
the process with the IPFIX policy to get it registered here:  
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipfix/ipfix.xhtml). There are other use cases 
that I can think of where this registry will be required (MRT exports as one 
top of my mind)

2) Documenting change on BGP decision process changes: Section 3. Basically the 
origin validation happens before any other policy applied. This goes beyond the 
iBGP community but even for stand-alone routers. In this sense, you can 
implement RPKI in a device without modifying any existing policy description.

3) Documentation of non-standard BGP communities: Over the years, we have seen 
a number of attempts to document and standardise providers communities with 
less than great results. One particularly use case (that I suffered) is when 
you have to merge two networks due to an acquisition, standardised communities 
are very helpful.

And lets not forget: Running Code: Last but not least…the draft has been 
delayed more than what it should and several implementations (including two 
from Cisco) has running code + documentation + training. As we are pushing to 
improve adoption of RPKI, I rather spend time adding the missing pieces that 
removing what is not broken…although the need may not be obvious for everyone.

Roque

randy

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