Congratulation

[thomas-mangin]

For a first release, the code is clean and quite easy to read. I wish you all the best with openbgp.

It is just unfortunate that a popular open source daemon called "openbgpd" already exists ( http://www.openbgpd.org/ ). You may want to consider another name for your project ( it is not too late ) or at least make sure the daemon is not called the same as openbsd's one.

Oh, and do not do my mistake and use str for anything: like you did with "construct", use a different function to generate string representation of BGP objects.

Best of luck.

[xiaopeng163]

hi Thomas

First I want to thank you! we wrote this project in 2011 within Cisco as an internal project, and at that time I reference your exabgp(the version is 1.3.4 👍 ), your code gave me many many inspirations. And thanks for your advise, I will keep on going.

yes, I can change the daemon name from openbgpd to another name. For the project name, I knew there is a project called openbgpd, but I also found there are no packages named openbgp in pypi, so I wonder if it is possible for me to keep the package name as openbgp?

And the same issue happened in openbmp, our another Python BMP project (It was written during 2013 I think). But almost half a year ago, there is a Cisco guy open sourced one BMP project called OpenBMP written in C language.

So if I want to keep the package name as openbgp or openbmp in github and pypi, is there any problem in future? I am not familiar with open source policy, please help me.

BR,

Peng Xiao

[thomas-mangin]

Hi Peng,

You can not always avoid name clashes as there is not policy.

But having a name similar to an existing project with cause you a few issues:

• people googling will find both project, as openbgpd has been going for a long time are likely to find the wrong answers/project
• if you software need to be packaged by openbsd ( I do not think openbgpd is packaged for other os ) then you will have a name clash

Overall it is confusing for the user, hence why it is preferable, nothing more.

Sincerely,

Thomas

[xiaopeng163]

thanks, I will think about a new name for our project