Jared Mauch wrote on Wednesday, November 9, 2022 11:39 PM
On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 10:31:06PM +0000, Netmaster (exAS286) wrote:
Introducing '::' however might/will break tools following RFC2280/RFC2622 being read as (and mostly implemented/enforced like this) "a single colon between set names and AS numbers" (hmmm, it states 'separated by colons ":"', but examples kind of imply the "single between").
The nice thing is moving to the ASN removes the possibility of being unique, I recently moved from AS-NETHER to AS267 to reduce the chance of conflict. We should also likely move from AS-AKAMAI to AS20940:GLOBAL or something else.
I'm lost. AS20940:GLOBAL wouldn't be a valid AS-SET name. AS20940:AS-GLOBAL? Well, with the requirement of the AS-SET names like ASx:AS-SET requiring mnt-by of ASx, less likely "by accident" dups showing up. But it doesn't protect *evil* person adding ASx to an "open" RR and adding a bad ASx:AS-SET there. <constructive> It's an ugly way, but adding some semantics to the AS-SET names to point to the right RR, wouldn't break existing tooling and could be picked up by smarter tools. Like ASx:AS-SET-SOURCE-RIPE only being valid if source if RIPE. I have said it's ugly, haven't I? And it's not a proposal to solve the problem (as e.g. if someone would have missed this semantical layer and would register whyever AS1:AS-FOOBAR-SOURCE-RIPE in RADB ...) Markus