Technical Summary
Extended Communities are an extension to BGP-4 which may be used
to provide flexible control over the distribution of routing
information. They may also be used to distribute additional
details associated with routing information (e.g., link bandwidth).
Working Group Summary
The Working Group supports publication of this document.
Protocol Quality
Bill Fenner reviewed this spec for the IESG. Seven interoperable
implementations were described in the implementation survey.
RFC Editor Note
Please add the following citation to the normative references section:
[RFC4020] Kompella, K. and A. Zinin, "Early IANA Allocation of
Standards Track Code Points", BCP 100, RFC 4020, February 2005.
and change the reference to [kompella-zinin] in paragraph 5
of section 7 to [RFC4020].