Wide BGP Communities Attribute
draft-raszuk-wide-bgp-communities-02
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This is an older version of an Internet-Draft whose latest revision state is "Replaced".
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| Authors | Shane Amante , Robert Raszuk , Jeffrey Haas , Richard Steenbergen , Bruno Decraene , Paul Jakma | ||
| Last updated | 2011-07-11 (Latest revision 2010-10-17) | ||
| Replaced by | draft-ietf-idr-wide-bgp-communities, draft-ietf-idr-wide-bgp-communities | ||
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| Consensus boilerplate | Unknown | ||
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| IESG | IESG state | Expired | |
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Abstract
Route tagging plays an important role in external BGP relations, in communicating various routing policies between peers. It is also a very common best practice among operators to propagate various additional information about routes intra-domain. The most common tool used today to attach various information about routes is through the use of BGP communities. Such information is important to allow BGP speakers to perform some mutually agreed upon actions without the need to maintain a separate offline database for each tuple of prefix and associated set of action entries. This document defines a new encoding which will enhance and simplify what can be accomplished today with the use of BGP communities. The most important addition this specification makes over currently defined BGP communities is the ability to specify, carry as well as use for execution an operator's defined set of parameters. It also provides an extensible platform for any new community encoding needs in the future.
Authors
Shane Amante
Robert Raszuk
Jeffrey Haas
Richard Steenbergen
Bruno Decraene
Paul Jakma
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