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Re: [Idr] Fwd: I-DACTION:draft-pmohapat-idr-acceptown-community-01.txt

Jim,
 
it's well understanable why you'd like to have ACCEPT_OWN capability. However the problem you're trying to solve is more global than the solution can address. ACCEPT_OWN may solve issue for some networks that follow certain rules, but there will be still those with different network design but similar problem and ACCEPT_OWN won't address their needs (e.g. with client-to-client reflection disabled). Such networks will then go on and design yet another solution for the same problem.
 
I believe it's not optimum to modify core protocol functionality just to address special case scenarios, in contrary - protocols should be more generic. Couldn't the problem with building extranets solved in some way that wouldn't require modification of the fundamental BGP functionality? One such possibility could be to add a new address family to BGP that would redistribute import/export policies among all routers within arbitrary boundaries. This way you don't modify core protocol and people could take advantage of new functionality without being forced to redesign their networks.
 
Cheers,
iLya
 
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