Large communities indicating RPKI VALID status

[Daniel Suchy]

There's internet draft describing in detail, why it's not a good idea to 
store RPKI validation state inside community variables at all..

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-sidrops-avoid-rpki-state-in-bgp-00.html

- Daniel

On 4/27/24 5:05 AM, Nigel Kukard via Bird-users wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was busy reading 
> https://bgpfilterguide.nlnog.net/guides/reject_invalids/ and noticed the 
> following text...
> 
> Note: REALLY DONT store the validation state inside a bgp_community or 
> bgp_large_community or bgp_ext_community variables. It can cause CPU & 
> memory overload resulting in convergence performance issues.
> 
> I was wondering if this is still an issue and if it would still be a bad 
> idea to indicate that RPKI was VALID using communities on multiple full 
> BGP feeds?
> 
> Is anyone doing this at present? are you seeing significant load?
> 
> Kind Regards
> Nigel
>