Maxence

To add –

The term “route” has been re-used from the base BMP RFC 7854, as this draft 
extends the stats defined there.

Also note that RFC 4271 has been referred few times in this draft as well.

Thanks
Mukul



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From: Jeffrey Haas <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [GROW] Re: Meaning of "route"
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Maxence,
On 7/19/25 13:06, Maxence Younsi wrote:

Dear authors of draft-ietf-grow-bmp-bgp-rib-stats,



Thank you for the work on these BGP RIB stats



After reading it, I actually am not sure about what the word "route" means in 
the RIB counters?



Is it:

 A. a destination

 B. a tuple of Destination + Next-hop

 C. a path: Destination + Attributes

 D. none of the above? :)



Could you clarify that meaning when you describe counters of routes in RIBs for 
the statistics?

Ideally, adding a paragraph to the draft about that would be great!

The statistics covered in this draft are for the BGP Adj-Ribs-In/Adj-Ribs-Out 
logical tables.  So, it'd be from the RFC 4271 definition:

   Route

      A unit of information that pairs a set of destinations with the

      attributes of a path to those destinations.  The set of

      destinations are systems whose IP addresses are contained in one

      IP address prefix carried in the Network Layer Reachability

      Information (NLRI) field of an UPDATE message.  The path is the

      information reported in the path attributes field of the same

      UPDATE message.

A sentence noting this might be helpful.  Perhaps the chairs will flag this as 
part of their shepherd review?

-- Jeff
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