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Segment Routing Path MTU in BGP
draft-ietf-idr-sr-policy-path-mtu-14

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (idr WG)
Expired & archived
Authors Cheng Li , Yongqing Zhu , Ahmed El Sawaf , Zhenbin Li , Guanming Zeng
Last updated 2026-07-20 (Latest revision 2026-01-05)
Replaces draft-li-idr-sr-policy-path-mtu
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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Jul 2027
Complete WGLC for BGP SR Policy Extensions for Path MTU as a Proposed Standard
Document shepherd Susan Hares
IESG IESG state Expired
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Abstract

Segment Routing is a source routing paradigm that explicitly indicates the forwarding path for packets at the ingress node. An SR policy is a set of SR Policy candidate paths consisting of one or more segments with the appropriate SR path attributes. BGP distributes each SR Policy candidate path as combination of an prefix plus a the BGP Tunnel Encapsulation(Tunnel-Encaps) attribute containing an SR Policy Tunnel TLV with information on the SR Policy candidate path as a tunnel. However, the path maximum transmission unit (MTU) information for a segment list for SR path is not currently passed in the BGP Tunnel-Encaps attribute. . This document defines extensions to BGP to distribute path MTU information within SR policies.

Authors

Cheng Li
Yongqing Zhu
Ahmed El Sawaf
Zhenbin Li
Guanming Zeng

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