Technical Summary
This document reorganizes the IANA Registries for the type
values and sub-type values of BGP Extended Communities
attribute and the BGP IPv6-Address-Specific Extended
Communities attribute. This is done in order to remove
inter-dependencies among the registries, thus making
it easier for IANA to determine which code points are
available for assignment in which registries. This document
also clarifies the information that must be provided to IANA
when requesting an allocation from one or more of these
registries. These changes are compatible with the
existing allocations, and thus do not affect protocol
implementations. The changes will however impact
the "IANA Considerations" sections of future protocol
specifications. This document updates RFCs 4360 and 5701.
Working Group Summary
Approvals were given all round by implementors and deployers.
The only problem with a “no-brainer” request is that people
forget to comment.
Document Quality
This is an IANA clean-up.
Personnel
Susan Hares is the Document Shepherd.
Stewart Bryant is the Responsible Area Director.