NTAC Peering Working Group

[Michael H Lambert <>]

Changing the subject line because we've gotten out of scope for a workshop 
discussion.

> On 19 Aug 2015, at 09:51, Steven Wallace 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
> One method that might allow more flexibility would be to have the origin AS 
> tag its NLRI with community values that indicate the extent to which their 
> information can be shared. Default, no tags, would mean no sharing. There 
> could be a handful of tags that specify among a discrete set of sharing 
> options.
> 
> This would require a deliberate act to add the tags. There would need to be 
> trust between members and regional networks, as regionals could insert the 
> tags themselves, however the NLRI and its tags would be totally 
> transparent, so anyone could see the tags.

I like this idea.  I think the trust is already implicit because regionals 
can already add tags to engineer members' traffic (for good or ill).

Michael