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.