Network Working Group Y. Rekhter
Request for Comments: 5668 Juniper Networks
Category: Standards Track S. Sangli
Cisco Systems
D. Tappan
Consultant
October 2009
4-Octet AS Specific BGP Extended Community
Abstract
This document defines a new type of a BGP extended community, which
carries a 4-octet Autonomous System (AS) number.
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1. Introduction
This document defines a new type of BGP extended community [RFC4360]:
a 4-octet AS specific extended community. This type of extended
community is similar to the 2-octet AS specific extended community,
except that it can carry a 4-octet Autonomous System number.
1.1. 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].
2. 4-Octet AS Specific Extended Community
This is an extended type with a Type field comprising 2 octets and a
Value field comprising 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 (for transitive communities) or 0x42 (for non-transitive
communities). The low-order octet of this extended type is used to
indicate sub-types.
The Value field consists of 2 sub-fields:
Global Administrator sub-field: 4 octets
This sub-field contains a 4-octet Autonomous System number
assigned by IANA.
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Local Administrator sub-field: 2 octets
The organization identified by the 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
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