RE: Comments on draft-zhao-opsec-routing-capabilities-01.txt

[Zhao Ye <yezhao@huawei.com>]

> Section 2.1
> 
> Max Prefix - needs language added to address what to do when 
> max number of routes/prefixes is reached.  Doc says "may 
> reset the BGP session", which is true, but perhaps it should 
> be left admin down.  usually when this happens, it continues 
> to happen becasue there has been a BGP mis-configuration on 
> the other side, and you will continue to have the sessions 
> come up and go down unitl this is discovered, which 
> introduces instability into the overall routing table.

I section 2.1, the draft mentions "may reject excess routes" as well.
Resetting a session is not the only option. 
I think capability document is mainly about what a device should support. 
 
> most tier 1s communicate what this number needs to be, and 
> add some sane amount of overhead to it for growth, swings 
> etc, but when 60K goes to 120K over and over, bad things happen.
> 
> make sense?
> 
> would you like me propose some text?

It's OK. I am glad to hear your advice.