@techreport{quoitin-bgp-comm-survey-00, number = {draft-quoitin-bgp-comm-survey-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-quoitin-bgp-comm-survey/00/}, author = {Bruno Quoitin and Olivier Bonaventure}, title = {{A survey of the utilization of the BGP community attribute}}, pagetotal = 16, year = 2002, month = mar, day = 21, abstract = {In this document, we describe the two most common utilizations of the BGP community attribute, namely to tag routes and indicate how a route should be redistributed by external peers. We then discuss how often these two types of community attribute are used on the basis of the RIPE whois database and of BGP table dumps.}, }