Outbound Route Filtering Capability for BGP-4
draft-ietf-idr-route-filter-17

Approval announcement
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Announcement

From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
To: IETF-Announce <ietf-announce@ietf.org>
Cc: Internet Architecture Board <iab@iab.org>,
    RFC Editor <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org>, 
    idr mailing list <idr@ietf.org>, 
    idr chair <idr-chairs@tools.ietf.org>
Subject: Protocol Action: 'Outbound Route Filtering Capability 
         for BGP-4' to Proposed Standard 

The IESG has approved the following documents:

- 'Outbound Route Filtering Capability for BGP-4 '
   <draft-ietf-idr-route-filter-18.txt> as a Proposed Standard
- 'Address-Prefix-Based Outbound Route Filter for BGP-4 '
   <draft-ietf-idr-bgp-prefix-orf-06.txt> as a Proposed Standard

These documents are products of the Inter-Domain Routing Working Group. 

The IESG contact persons are David Ward and Ross Callon.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idr-route-filter-18.txt

Ballot Text

Technical Summary
 
 These documents define a BGP-based mechanism that allows a BGP speaker to
send to its BGP peer a set of route filters that the peer would use to
constrain/filter its outbound routing updates to the speaker.
 
Working Group Summary
 
 This mechanism is widely deployed by multiple vendors and the technology
has had no dissent and is considered very useful.
 
Protocol Quality
 
The extension is widely deployed and there are many interoperable
implementations.

RFC Editor Note