Network Working Group                   Yakov Rekhter (Juniper Networks)
Internet Draft                         Srihari R. Sangli (Cisco Systems)
Expiration Date: March 2009                Daniel Tappan (Cisco Systems)
Intended Status: Proposed Standard

             Four-octet AS Specific BGP Extended Community

             draft-ietf-l3vpn-as4octet-ext-community-00.txt


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Abstract

   This document defines a new type of a BGP extended community - four-
   octet AS specific extended community. This community allows to carry
   4 octet autonomous system numbers.


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].


1. Introduction

   This document defines a new type of a BGP ([BGP-4]) extended
   community ([EXT-COMM]) - four-octet AS specific extended community.
   This type of extended community is similar to the two-octet AS
   specific extended community, except that it can carry a four octets
   autonomous system number.


2. Four-octet AS specific extended community

   This is an extended type with Type Field comprising of 2 octets and
   Value Field comprising of 6 octets.


      0                   1                   2                   3
      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     | 0x02 or 0x42  |   Sub-Type    |    Global Administrator       |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     | Global Administrator (cont.)  |    Local Administrator        |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+


   The value of the high-order octet of this extended type is either
   0x02 or 0x42. The low-order octet of this extended type is used to
   indicate sub-types.

   The Value Field consists of two sub-fields:

      Global Administrator sub-field: 4 octets

         This sub-field contains a 4-octets Autonomous System number
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      Local Administrator sub-field: 2 octets

         The organization identified by Autonomous System number in the
         Global Administrator sub-field, can encode any information in
         this sub-field.  The format and meaning of the value encoded in
         this sub-field should be defined by the sub-type of the commu-
         nity.


3. IANA Considerations

   This document defines a class of extended communities called four-
   octet AS specific extended community for which the IANA is to create
   and maintain a registry entitled Four-octet AS Specific Extended Com-
   munity. All the communities in this class are of extended Types.
   Future assignment are to be made using the "First Come First Served"
   policy defined in [RFC2434]. The Type values for the transitive com-
   munities of the four-octet AS specific extended community class are
   0x0200-0x02ff, and for the non-transitive communities of that class
   are 0x4200-0x42ff. Assignments consist of a name and the value.

   This document makes the following assignments for the four-octet AS
   specific extended community:

      Name                                     Type Value
      ----                                     ----------
      four-octet AS specific Route Target       0x0202
      four-octet AS specific Route Origin       0x0203


4. Security Considerations

   All the security considerations for BGP Extended Communities apply
   here.


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   this standard.  Please address the information to the IETF at ietf-
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8. Acknowledgements



9. Normative References

   [BGP-4]   Rekhter, Y., and T. Li, "A Border Gateway Protocol 4
   (BGP-4)", RFC 4271, January 2006

   [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
   Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC2434] Narten, T., Alvestrand, H., "Guidelines for Writing an IANA
   Considerations Section in RFCs", RFC2434, October 1998.

   [EXT-COMM]  Srihari R. Sangli, Daniel Tappan, Yakov Rekhter, "BGP
   Extended Communities Attribute", RFC 4360, February 2006.


10. Non-normative References



11. Author Information


   Yakov Rekhter
   Juniper Networks, Inc.
   e-mail: yakov@juniper.net

   Srihari R. Sangli
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   e-mail: rsrihari@cisco.com

   Dan Tappan
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   250 Apollo Drive
   Chelmsford, MA 01824
   e-mail: tappan@cisco.com







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