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Signaling Alternative Labels for BGP Prefixes
draft-smm-bess-alt-label-00

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Authors Shyam Sethuram , Mankamana Prasad Mishra , SATYA R MOHANTY , Israel Means , Praveen Ramadenu
Last updated 2026-04-23 (Latest revision 2025-10-20)
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Abstract

A single MPLS label or a label stack is advertised along with an address prefix as part of the NLRI belonging to labeled address families such as Labeled Unicast (RFC 8277), VPN (RFC 4364), etc. This document specifies a method to advertise one or more additional, alternative labels for a set of address prefixes using the Next Hop Dependent Characteristics (NHC) attribute.

Authors

Shyam Sethuram
Mankamana Prasad Mishra
SATYA R MOHANTY
Israel Means
Praveen Ramadenu

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