On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 11:47 PM, joel jaeggli <joelja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 6/26/16 6:38 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> There has been no discussion on the GROW mailing list about having this
> document published as Standards Track rather than informational and it's
> coming as a surprise to see that this was only announced at IESG Last
> Call a couple of days ago. At the least, there ought to be some
> discussion about this before pushing it up into the publication queue.
The looking back at the document that was WGLCed (which is the current
version) the state was standards track. the individual sumbission draft
draft-ymbk-grow-blackholing-00 was flagged as such since initial
submission. It's status therefore I think is well understood. Whether
that's appropriate or not is another question.
Afaik well know assignments (and there are precious few really) have
been generally regarded as standards action thought the ranges is split
like so.
Range Registration Procedures
0xFFFF0000-0xFFFF8000 First Come First Served
0xFFFF8001-0xFFFFFFFF Standards Action
And given that the code point that is being defined is 0xFFFF029A and that falls in the First Come First Served range, technically standards action isn't required. Furthermore, this draft is really dependant on RFC3882 and RFC5635, both Informational Status, for a full description of the intended functionality. If this draft is Standards Track, some may mistakenly think there is some kind of preference for this mechanism for triggering Blackholes, vs. the other mechanisms discussed in RFC3882 and RFC5635. I fully support this defining this Well-Known BGP Community, however I believe it should be of equal stature as the other mechanisms discussed in RFC3882 and RFC5635.
Thanks.
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