<div><div dir="auto">On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 at 15:17, Mark Prior via db-wg <<a href="mailto:db-wg@ripe.net">db-wg@ripe.net</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Wouldn't it be better to just change the definition of community in the<br>
RPSL dictionary so that a community of <digit>+ ":" <digit>+ ":"<br>
<digit>+ is valid and then have the tools either barf if they don't<br>
understand or do "the right thing"? That would seem more consistent with<br>
the current scheme where a community can either be an integer or<br>
<digit>+ ":" <digit>+.</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That goes against the documented recommendations on how to upgrade RPSL. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I assume a router that can deal with large communities will accept<br>
standard ones in the same clauses if someone wants to do that for local<br>
use only communities.</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Unfortunately your assumption is wrong. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Kind regards,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Job</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></div></div>