Re: Destination-IP-Origin-AS Filter for BGP Flow Specification

Jeffrey Haas <[email protected]> Mon, 11 Nov 2019 03:24:03 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.idr
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 07:21:17AM +0000, Wanghaibo (Rainsword) wrote:
> Hi Jeffrey,
> 
> 	Thanks for your suggestion.
> 
> 	Flowspec is intended to match only the message fields. 
> 	Our solution here is an enhancement to Flowspec, which can effectively reduce the space of the flowspec.
> 
> 	The rules here are also used in conjunction with the existing Flowspec rules, so using the new SAFI to describe it is not appropriate.
> 	We can increase OPEN capability negotiation to enable when this feature is supported.

BGP NLRI are transitive across a network.  If you want a feature that varies
on NLRI parsing or processing behavior, it needs to be uniformly supported
across all BGP speakers that receive it.  This cannot be a capability.  That
behavior is covered by afi/safis.

-- Jeff

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