@misc{rfc7999, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 7999, howpublished = {RFC 7999}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC7999}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7999}, author = {Thomas King and Christoph Dietzel and Job Snijders and Gert Döring and Greg Hankins}, title = {{BLACKHOLE Community}}, pagetotal = 9, year = 2016, month = oct, abstract = {This document describes the use of a well-known Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) community for destination-based blackholing in IP networks. This well-known advisory transitive BGP community named "BLACKHOLE" allows an origin Autonomous System (AS) to specify that a neighboring network should discard any traffic destined towards the tagged IP prefix.}, }