On 12/08/2011 08:11, Randy Bush wrote:
>> The IESG has received a request from the Inter-Domain Routing WG
(idr) to
>> consider the following document:
>> - 'Deprecation of the use of BGP AS_SET, AS_CONFED_SET.'
>> <draft-ietf-idr-deprecate-as-sets-05.txt> as an Informational RFC
>
> i have read and support this document. AS-Sets are essentially unused,
> the deprecation is needed for the sidr work, and their removal will make
> many research and ops tools which run against bgp announcements easier.
>
Writing and working with such research tools I can only support this
document as well. In fact I'm usually ignoring AS-Sets, as their use is
already extremely rare, and they just complicate the code.
Mat
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