[db-wg] Proxy proposal large communities

On 13/11/17 22:28, Nick Hilliard via db-wg wrote:
> 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.

As a user I'd prefer it if irrtoolset complained if it couldn't do
something meaningful with a policy fragment rather than pretend
everything is fine because it passed a syntax check.

Mark.