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BGP Extended Community Registries Update
draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ext-com-registry-03

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Author Christoph Loibl
Last updated 2021-10-26 (Latest revision 2021-10-13)
Replaces draft-cl-idr-bgp-ext-com-registry-update
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draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ext-com-registry-03
IDR Working Group                                               C. Loibl
Internet-Draft                                   next layer Telekom GmbH
Updates: 7153 (if approved)                              13 October 2021
Intended status: Standards Track                                        
Expires: 16 April 2022

                BGP Extended Community Registries Update
                 draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ext-com-registry-03

Abstract

   This document updates several BGP Extended Community registries in
   order to replace the "Experimental Use" registration procedure in
   some entries, since their use is clearly not experimental and thus
   misleading.

   This document updates RFC7153.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     2.1.  Registry: BGP Transitive Extended Community Types . . . .   3
     2.2.  Registry: Generic Transitive Experimental Use Extended
           Community Sub-Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.3.  Registry: Generic Transitive Experimental Use Extended
           Community Part 2 Sub-Types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.4.  Registry: Generic Transitive Experimental Use Extended
           Community Part 3 Sub-Types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   3.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   4.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   5.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     5.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     5.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5

1.  Introduction

   [RFC7153] reorganizes the IANA registries for the type values and
   sub-type values of the BGP Extended Communities attribute.  As a
   result the IANA maintained registry entitled "BGP Transitive Extended
   Community Types" includes a range of Type Values (0x80-0x8F) reserved
   for Experimental Use. Out of this experimental range the types 0x80,
   0x81, 0x82 have been used in [RFC5575] and [RFC7674] (both documents
   rendered Obsolete by [RFC8955]).  The primary use for those types and
   sub-type registries is non experimental.

   Section 2 of this document requests the registry cleanup to reflect
   the actual use of those code-points (removing "Experimental Use" from
   the sub-type registry names) and changes the registration procedure
   of the types 0x80, 0x81, 0x82 to use the First Come First Served
   policy [RFC8126] and thus updates [RFC7153].

2.  IANA Considerations

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2.1.  Registry: BGP Transitive Extended Community Types

   IANA maintains a registry entitled "BGP Transitive Extended Community
   Types".  IANA is requested to update the Name of the Type Values
   according to Table 1 and append a reference to this document to the
   existing references.

   +=======+==============================================+===========+
   | Type  | Name                                         | Reference |
   | Value |                                              |           |
   +=======+==============================================+===========+
   | 0x80  | Generic Transitive Extended Community (Sub-  | [add this |
   |       | Types are defined in the "Generic Transitive | document] |
   |       | Extended Community Sub-Types" Registry)      |           |
   +-------+----------------------------------------------+-----------+
   | 0x81  | Generic Transitive Extended Community Part 2 | [add this |
   |       | (Sub-Types are defined in the "Generic       | document] |
   |       | Transitive Extended Community Part 2 Sub-    |           |
   |       | Types" Registry)                             |           |
   +-------+----------------------------------------------+-----------+
   | 0x82  | Generic Transitive Extended Community Part 3 | [add this |
   |       | (Sub-Types are defined in the "Generic       | document] |
   |       | Transitive Extended Community Part 3 Sub-    |           |
   |       | Types" Registry)                             |           |
   +-------+----------------------------------------------+-----------+

        Table 1: Registry: BGP Transitive Extended Community Types

   Furthermore IANA is requested to change the registration procedures
   of this registry of Type Values 0x80 thru 0x82 to First Come First
   Served [RFC8126].  The resulting Registration Procedures should read
   as in Table 2.

       +===========+===============================================+
       | Range     | Registration Procedures                       |
       +===========+===============================================+
       | 0x00-0x3f | First Come First Served                       |
       +-----------+-----------------------------------------------+
       | 0x80-0x82 | First Come First Served (see [this document]) |
       +-----------+-----------------------------------------------+
       | 0x83-0x8f | Reserved for Experimental Use (see [RFC3692]) |
       +-----------+-----------------------------------------------+
       | 0x90-0xbf | Standards Action                              |
       +-----------+-----------------------------------------------+

         Table 2: Registration Procedures: BGP Transitive Extended
                              Community Types

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2.2.  Registry: Generic Transitive Experimental Use Extended Community
      Sub-Types

   IANA maintains a registry entitled "Generic Transitive Experimental
   Use Extended Community Sub-Types".  IANA is requested update the
   registry title to:

      "Generic Transitive Extended Community Sub-Types"

2.3.  Registry: Generic Transitive Experimental Use Extended Community
      Part 2 Sub-Types

   IANA maintains a registry entitled "Generic Transitive Experimental
   Use Extended Community Part 2 Sub-Types".  IANA is requested update
   the registry title to:

      "Generic Transitive Extended Community Part 2 Sub-Types"

2.4.  Registry: Generic Transitive Experimental Use Extended Community
      Part 3 Sub-Types

   IANA maintains a registry entitled "Generic Transitive Experimental
   Use Extended Community Part 3 Sub-Types".  IANA is requested update
   the registry title to:

      "Generic Transitive Extended Community Part 3 Sub-Types"

3.  Security Considerations

   There are no direct security considerations arising from this
   document.

4.  Acknowledgements

   The author wants to thank Alvaro Retana who pointed out, that the
   IANA registry contains misleading entries in this context.

5.  References

5.1.  Normative References

   [RFC7153]  Rosen, E. and Y. Rekhter, "IANA Registries for BGP
              Extended Communities", RFC 7153, DOI 10.17487/RFC7153,
              March 2014, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7153>.

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   [RFC8126]  Cotton, M., Leiba, B., and T. Narten, "Guidelines for
              Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26,
              RFC 8126, DOI 10.17487/RFC8126, June 2017,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8126>.

5.2.  Informative References

   [RFC3692]  Narten, T., "Assigning Experimental and Testing Numbers
              Considered Useful", BCP 82, RFC 3692,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC3692, January 2004,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3692>.

   [RFC5575]  Marques, P., Sheth, N., Raszuk, R., Greene, B., Mauch, J.,
              and D. McPherson, "Dissemination of Flow Specification
              Rules", RFC 5575, DOI 10.17487/RFC5575, August 2009,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5575>.

   [RFC7674]  Haas, J., Ed., "Clarification of the Flowspec Redirect
              Extended Community", RFC 7674, DOI 10.17487/RFC7674,
              October 2015, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7674>.

   [RFC8955]  Loibl, C., Hares, S., Raszuk, R., McPherson, D., and M.
              Bacher, "Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules",
              RFC 8955, DOI 10.17487/RFC8955, December 2020,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8955>.

Author's Address

   Christoph Loibl
   next layer Telekom GmbH
   Mariahilfer Guertel 37/7
   1150 Vienna
   Austria

   Phone: +43 664 1176414
   Email: cl@tix.at

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