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Configuring BGP to Block Denial-of-Service Attacks
draft-turk-bgp-dos-06

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Announcement

From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
To: RFC Editor <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org>
Cc: The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, <iana@iana.org>, ietf-announce@ietf.org
Subject: Re: Informational RFC to be: draft-turk-bgp-dos-07.txt 

The IESG has no problem with the publication of 'Configuring BGP to Block 
Denial-of-Service Attacks' <draft-turk-bgp-dos-07.txt> as an 
Informational RFC. 

The IESG would also like the IRSG or RFC-Editor to review the comments in 
the datatracker 
(https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi?command=view_id&dTag=9145&rfc_flag=0) 
related to this document and determine whether or not they merit 
incorporation into the document. Comments may exist in both the ballot 
and the comment log. 

The IESG contact person is Alex Zinin.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-turk-bgp-dos-07.txt


The process for such documents is described at http://www.rfc-editor.org/indsubs.html.

Thank you,

The IESG Secretary

Ballot Text

Technical Summary
 
 This document describes an operational technique that uses BGP
 communities to remotely trigger black-holing of a particular
 destination network to block denial-of-service attacks.   Black-
 holing can be applied on a selection of routers rather than all BGP-
 speaking routers in the network.   The document also describes a
 sinkhole tunnel technique using BGP communities and tunnels to pull
 traffic into a sinkhole router for analysis.
 
Working Group Summary

 The document is NOT a WG submission. However, comments have been solicited
 from the Routing Area mailing list and the Routing Area directorate members

 The draft has received adequate review and support within the community.
 
Protocol Quality
 
 The document has been reviewed for the IESG by Alex Zinin.

RFC Editor Note