Technical Summary
This document describes the use of a well-known Border Gateway
Protocol (BGP) community for blackholing at IP networks and Internet
Exchange Points (IXP). This well-known advisory transitive BGP
community, namely BLACKHOLE, allows an origin AS to specify that a
neighboring IP network or IXP should blackhole a specific IP prefix.
Working Group Summary
The working group had decent discussion on this draft and consensus on content/intent.
Document Quality
The proposal does not include code requirements, but does include use of a standard bgp community 'BLACKHOLE' to accomplish a task (discard traffic inside the connected networks).
The IETF Last call resulted in significant changes to the document inclusive of a change to the intended state to informational.
Personnel
Shepherd: christopher.morrow@gmail.com
AD: joelja@bogus.com