IANA Registries for BGP Extended Communities
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                          E. Rosen
Request for Comments: 7153                           Cisco Systems, Inc.
Updates: 4360, 5701                                           Y. Rekhter
Category: Standards Track                         Juniper Networks, Inc.
ISSN: 2070-1721                                               March 2014

              IANA Registries for BGP Extended Communities

Abstract

   This document reorganizes the IANA registries for the type values and
   sub-type values of the BGP Extended Communities attribute and the BGP
   IPv6-Address-Specific Extended Communities attribute.  This is done
   in order to remove interdependencies among the registries, thus
   making it easier for IANA to determine which codepoints are available
   for assignment in which registries.  This document also clarifies the
   information that must be provided to IANA when requesting an
   allocation from one or more of these registries.  These changes are
   compatible with the existing allocations and thus do not affect
   protocol implementations.  The changes will, however, impact the
   "IANA Considerations" sections of future protocol specifications.
   This document updates RFC 4360 and RFC 5701.

Status of This Memo

   This is an Internet Standards Track document.

   This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
   (IETF).  It represents the consensus of the IETF community.  It has
   received public review and has been approved for publication by the
   Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).  Further information on
   Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.

   Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
   and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
   http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7153.

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Table of Contents

   1. Introduction ....................................................3
   2. Types, Sub-Types, and Registries ................................4
   3. Applicability to IPv6-Address-Specific EC Attribute .............4
   4. How to Request EC Type and/or Sub-Type Codepoints ...............5
   5. IANA Considerations .............................................6
      5.1. Registries for the "Type" Field ............................7
           5.1.1. Transitive Types ....................................7
           5.1.2. Non-Transitive Types ................................8
      5.2. Registries for the "Sub-Type" Field ........................9
           5.2.1. EVPN Extended Community Sub-Types ...................9
           5.2.2. Transitive Two-Octet AS-Specific Extended Community
                  Sub-Types ..........................................10
           5.2.3. Non-Transitive Two-Octet AS-Specific Extended
                  Community Sub-Types ................................10
           5.2.4. Transitive Four-Octet AS-Specific Extended
                  Community Sub-Types ................................11
           5.2.5. Non-Transitive Four-Octet AS-Specific Extended
                  Community Sub-Types ................................11
           5.2.6. Transitive IPv4-Address-Specific Extended Community
                  Sub-Types ..........................................12
           5.2.7. Non-Transitive IPv4-Address-Specific Extended
                  Community Sub-Types ................................12
           5.2.8. Transitive Opaque Extended Community Sub-Types .....13
           5.2.9. Non-Transitive Opaque Extended Community
                  Sub-Types ..........................................13
           5.2.10. Generic Transitive Experimental Use Extended
                   Community Sub-Types ...............................14
           5.2.11. Registries for the "Value" Field ..................14
                  5.2.11.1. Traffic Action Fields ....................14
      5.3. Registries for IPv6-Address-Specific ECs ..................15