Compressed BGP Update Message
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Network Working Group A. Przygienda
Internet-Draft Juniper
Intended status: Standards Track A. Lingala
Expires: February 19, 2020 AT&T
C. Mate
NIIF/Hungarnet
J. Tantsura
Nuage Networks
August 18, 2019
Compressed BGP Update Message
draft-przygienda-idr-compressed-updates-07
Abstract
This document provides specification of an optional compressed BGP
update message format to allow family independent reduction in BGP
control traffic volume.
Requirements Language
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.1. Decompression Capability Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.2. Compressed BGP Update Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.3. Compressor Overflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.4. Compressor Restarts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.5. Error Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5. Special Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.1. Impact on Network Sniffing Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6. Packet Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.1. Decompressor Capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.2. Compressed Update Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
8. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
9. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1. Introduction
BGP as a protocol evolved over the years to carry larger and larger
volumes of information and this trend seems to continue unabated.
And while lots of the growth can be contributed to the advent of new
address families spurred by [RFC2283], steady increase in attributes
and their size amplifies this tendency. Recently, even the same NLRI
may be advertised multiple times by the means of ADD-PATH [RFC7911]
extensions. All those developments drive up the volume of
information BGP needs to exchange to synchronize RIBs of the peers.
Although BGP update format provides a simple "semantic" compression
mechanism that avoids the repetition of attributes if multiple NLRIs
share them already, in practical terms, the packing of updates has
proven a difficult challenge. The packing attempts are further
undermined by the plethora of "per NLRI-tagging" attributes such as
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