Re: ptomaine wg agenda for Atlanta

> Prefix Taxonomy Ongoing Measurement & Inter Network Experiment (ptomaine)
> 
> TUESDAY, Nov. 19 at 1545-1645
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> 
> CO-CHAIRS:   Sean Doran <[email protected]>
>              Mark Knopper <[email protected]>
> 
> PROPOSED AGENDA:
> 
> 0. Agenda bashing and administrivia
> 
> 1. WG documents - 15 mins
>     a. draft-ietf-ptomaine-nopeer-00.txt (Geoff)
>     b. draft-ietf-ptomaine-bgp-redistribution-01.txt (Andrew Lange)

Since I, unfortunately, will not be in Atlanta for this meeting, I'll
give my update to the list.

During the Yokohama meeting we discussed the possibility that the current
idr extended communities draft might undergo alterations before it is 
standardized.  In the idr meeting, I outlined a proposal for an new,
more flexible and extensible community type.  My proposal received a good
response, however, we decided that since current extended communities
are well deployed in RFC2547 BGP VPN's that replacing them would be 
impractical.  Instead, the new community propsal will be written up
as a seperate draft documenting third-generation communities.  This
draft will be forthcomming.

Since extended communties will likely be advanced in one form or another
to RFC at some point there doesn't seem to be any reason to hold up 
discussion of the redist draft pending idr work.  We should continue
our discussion of the technical and practical merits of the redist draft.

Andrew