BIRD 2.0.0: RFC8097 extended communities and rpki-light

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 06:47:44PM +0100, Pier Carlo Chiodi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> while I was running some tests on BIRD 2.0.0 I've noticed that the
> handling of RFC8097 extended communities is different from 1.6.3.
> The results I get follow:
> 
> - when 1.6.3 is used on the route server, BIRD treats the community
>   strictly according to RFC4360:
> 
>    If a route has a non-transitivity extended community, then before
>    advertising the route across the Autonomous System boundary the
>    community SHOULD be removed from the route.
> 
> - when 2.0.0 is used, the community is treated accordingly to
>   draft-ietf-sidrops-route-server-rpki-light-02 and is propagated to the
>   client.

Hi

Thanks for report, this seems like a bug.

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