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BGP Community Container Attribute
draft-hares-idr-bgp-community-attribute-01

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Author Susan Hares
Last updated 2025-04-17 (Latest revision 2024-10-14)
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Abstract

Route tagging plays an important role in external BGP (RFC4271) relations for communicating various routing policies between peers. It is also a 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 (original, extended or large). This document defines a new flexible Community encoding in a BGP Attribute that enhances what can be accomplished with BGP communities. Three initial use cases for this are flow specification version 2 (FSv2) actions, routing policy distribution (rpd) actions, and wide communities.

Authors

Susan Hares

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