Hi, On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 02:21:18PM +0000, James Bensley wrote:
I have had some people tell me that they do or have used the origin type, as a gentler way to prioritise/deprioritise stuff than MED or AS prepending. If that is a good idea or not is a different questing, everyone has different contexts.
origin comes before med, so it's far from "gentle" :-) https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/border-gateway-protocol-bgp/13... (see last mail, we were trying to affect traffic with med, and different origin values bit us) [..]
We could write a draft BCP and throw that into an IETF WG to see what happens (to see what feedback / backlash / praise comes out of it). Who'd be interested in collaborating on such a draft?
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