Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL)
RFC 2622
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RFC - Proposed Standard
(June 1999; No errata)
Obsoletes RFC 2280
Was draft-ietf-rps-rpsl-v2 (rps WG)
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Network Working Group C. Alaettinoglu
Request for Comments: 2622 USC/Information Sciences Institute
Obsoletes: 2280 C. Villamizar
Category: Standards Track Avici Systems
E. Gerich
At Home Network
D. Kessens
Qwest Communications
D. Meyer
University of Oregon
T. Bates
Cisco Systems
D. Karrenberg
RIPE NCC
M. Terpstra
Bay Networks
June 1999
Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL)
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
RPSL allows a network operator to be able to specify routing policies
at various levels in the Internet hierarchy; for example at the
Autonomous System (AS) level. At the same time, policies can be
specified with sufficient detail in RPSL so that low level router
configurations can be generated from them. RPSL is extensible; new
routing protocols and new protocol features can be introduced at any
time.
Alaettinoglu, et al. Standards Track [Page 1]
RFC 2622 RPSL June 1999
Table of Contents
1 Introduction 3
2 RPSL Names, Reserved Words, and Representation 4
3 Contact Information 7
3.1 mntner Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.2 person Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.3 role Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4 route Class 12
5 Set Classes 13
5.1 as-set Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.2 route-set Class. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.3 Predefined Set Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5.4 Filters and filter-set Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5.5 rtr-set Class. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.6 Peerings and peering-set Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
6 aut-num Class 27
6.1 import Attribute: Import Policy Specification . . . . . . . 27
6.1.1 Action Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
6.2 export Attribute: Export Policy Specification . . . . . . . 29
6.3 Other Routing Protocols, Multi-Protocol Routing Protocols,
and Injecting Routes Between Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
6.4 Ambiguity Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
6.5 default Attribute: Default Policy Specification . . . . . . 33
6.6 Structured Policy Specification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
7 dictionary Class 37
7.1 Initial RPSL Dictionary and Example Policy Actions and
Filters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
8 Advanced route Class 45
8.1 Specifying Aggregate Routes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
8.1.1Interaction with policies in aut-num class. . . . . . . . 49
8.1.2Ambiguity resolution with overlapping aggregates. . . . . 50
8.2 Specifying Static Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
9 inet-rtr Class 52
10 Extending RPSL 54
10.1 Extensions by changing the dictionary class . . . . . . . . 54
10.2 Extensions by adding new attributes to existing classes . . 55
10.3 Extensions by adding new classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
10.4 Extensions by changing the syntax of existing RPSL
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