Re: BGP Community - AS0 is de-facto "no-export-to" marker - Any ASN reserved to "export-only-to"?'

[Mike Hammett via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

Exactly. There are far more pressing things when launching a new network than coming up with a BGP community scheme 
from scratch, learning everyone else's BGP community scheme, etc. If networks used a standard, then there is a very 
minimal ramp-up. 




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From: "Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka () seacom com> 
To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog () ics-il net> 
Cc: nanog () nanog org 
Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 6:47:13 AM 
Subject: Re: BGP Community - AS0 is de-facto "no-export-to" marker - Any ASN reserved to "export-only-to"?' 




On 9/Sep/20 13:41, Mike Hammett wrote: 



How is that any different than any other network with minimal connectivity (say a non-ISP such as a school, medium 
business, local government, etc.)? 


Because the existing flexibility of dis-aggregated BGP community design can be done without any need to be in concert 
with the rest of the world, and your network won't blow up. There are far more pressing things to consider when 
launching a new network. 



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Also, it would likely help that new ISP in Myanmar learn their limited upstream's communities if there were a standard. 

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There used to be a very large global transit network that did not support BGP communities for their customers or peers. 
I'm not sure if that is still their position in 2020, but back then, it did not stop them from growing quite well. 

Mark.