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Re: [GROW] Last Call: <draft-ietf-grow-blackholing-00.txt> (BLACKHOLE BGP Community for Blackholing) to Proposed Standard

2016-06-29 16:24:25
On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 11:47 PM, joel jaeggli <joelja(_at_)bogus(_dot_)com> 
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.

Therefore, for the above reasons, I think the more appropriate status for
this draft is Informational.

Thanks.

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