[db-wg] Proxy proposal large communities

Job Snijders wrote:
> Can we, based on the observation that irrtoolset will consider any
> extension to the RPSL rp-attribute dictionary an error, conclude that
> RPSL can not be extended in this direction?

How did you come to this conclusion?  irrtoolset is non rfc compliant,
not the other way around.

At a practical level, it's relatively easy to add a new token into the
rpsl parser to shut irrtoolset up, even if it's a mess to add proper
support for large communities to the code so that they actually do what
you'd expect of them.

> Another approach would be to introduce yet another 'import/export'-style
> attribute, so that we'd have 'import:', 'export:', 'mp-import:',
> 'mp-export:', 'import-via:', 'export-via:', and now also:
> 'import-via-large:', 'export-via-large:'. Though this doesn't strike me
> as a healthy direction for growth and extendability.

No need for export-via-large.  "export-via" was required because it
changed the semantics of the export stanza.

Nick