Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
draft-ietf-idr-rfc2842bis-01
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draft-ietf-idr-rfc2842bis-01
Network Working Group Ravi Chandra
Internet Draft Redback Networks
Expiration Date: October 2002 John G. Scudder
cisco Systems
Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
draft-ietf-idr-rfc2842bis-01.txt
1. Status of this Memo
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2. Abstract
Currently BGP-4 requires that when a BGP speaker receives an OPEN
message with one or more unrecognized Optional Parameters, the
speaker must terminate BGP peering. This complicates introduction of
new capabilities in BGP.
This document defines new Optional Parameter, called Capabilities,
that is expected to facilitate introduction of new capabilities in
BGP by providing graceful capability advertisement without requiring
that BGP peering be terminated.
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3. Specification of Requirements
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].
4. Overview of Operations
When a BGP speaker [BGP-4] that supports capabilities advertisement
sends an OPEN message to its BGP peer, the message MAY include an
Optional Parameter, called Capabilities. The parameter lists the
capabilities supported by the speaker.
A BGP speaker determines the capabilities supported by its peer by
examining the list of capabilities present in the Capabilities
Optional Parameter carried by the OPEN message that the speaker
receives from the peer.
A BGP speaker that supports a particular capability may use this
capability with its peer after the speaker determines (as described
above) that the peer supports this capability.
A BGP speaker determines that its peer doesn't support capabilities
advertisement, if in response to an OPEN message that carries the
Capabilities Optional Parameter, the speaker receives a NOTIFICATION
message with the Error Subcode set to Unsupported Optional Parameter.
In this case the speaker SHOULD attempt to re-establish a BGP
connection with the peer without sending to the peer the Capabilities
Optional Parameter.
If a BGP speaker that supports a certain capability determines that
its peer doesn't support this capability, the speaker MAY send a
NOTIFICATION message to the peer, and terminate peering (see Section
"Extensions to Error Handling" for more details). The Error Subcode
in the message is set to Unsupported Capability. The message SHOULD
contain the capability (capabilities) that causes the speaker to send
the message. The decision to send the message and terminate peering
is local to the speaker. If terminated, such peering SHOULD NOT be
re-established automatically.
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5. Capabilities Optional Parameter (Parameter Type 2):
This is an Optional Parameter that is used by a BGP speaker to convey
to its BGP peer the list of capabilities supported by the speaker.
The parameter contains one or more triples <Capability Code,
Capability Length, Capability Value>, where each triple is encoded as
shown below:
+------------------------------+
| Capability Code (1 octet) |
+------------------------------+
| Capability Length (1 octet) |
+------------------------------+
| Capability Value (variable) |
+------------------------------+
The use and meaning of these fields are as follows:
Capability Code:
Capability Code is a one octet field that unambiguously
identifies individual capabilities.
Capability Length:
Capability Length is a one octet field that contains the length
of the Capability Value field in octets.
Capability Value:
Capability Value is a variable length field that is interpreted
according to the value of the Capability Code field.
BGP speakers SHOULD NOT include more than one instance of a
capability with the same Capability Code, Capability Length, and
Capability Value. Note however, that processing of multiple
instances of such capability does not require special handling, as
additional instances do not change the meaning of announced
capability.
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BGP speakers MAY include more than one instance of a capability (as
identified by the Capability Code) with non-zero Capability Length
field, but with different Capability Value, and either the same or
different Capability Length. Processing of these capability
instances is specific to the Capability Code and MUST be described in
the document introducing the new capability.
6. Extensions to Error Handling
This document defines new Error Subcode - Unsupported Capability.
The value of this Subcode is 7. The Data field in the NOTIFICATION
message SHOULD list the set of capabilities that cause the speaker to
send the message. Each such capability is encoded the same way as it
would be encoded in the OPEN message.
7. IANA Considerations
This document defines a Capability Optional Parameter along with an
Capability Code field. IANA is expected to create and maintain the
registry for Capability Code values. Capability Code value 0 is
reserved. Capability Code values 1 through 63 are to be assigned by
IANA using the "IETF Consensus" policy defined in RFC2434. Capability
Code values 64 through 127 are to be assigned by IANA, using the
"First Come First Served" policy defined in RFC2434. Capability Code
values 128 through 255 are for "Private Use" as defined in RFC2434.
8. Security Considerations
This extension to BGP does not change the underlying security issues
inherent in the existing BGP [Heffernan].
9. Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank members of the IDR Working Group for
their review and comments.
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10. References
[BGP-4] Rekhter, Y., and T. Li, "A Border Gateway Protocol 4
(BGP-4)", RFC 1771, March 1995.
[Heffernan] Heffernan, A., "Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP
MD5 Signature Option", RFC2385, August 1998.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
11. Author Information
Ravi Chandra
Redback Networks Inc.
350, Holger Way
San Jose, CA 95134
EMail: rchandra@redback.com
John G. Scudder
Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
e-mail: jgs@cisco.com
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