This question comes up every so often, and these documents are the best collection I've seen in one public place.
>Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 21:49:55 +0100 >From: Olivier Bonaventure >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Accept-Language: en >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [Fwd: Submission of draft-quoitin-bgp-comm-survey-00.txt] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk > >FYI > >This draft will appear within the next few days on the IETF mirror >sites. > >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: Submission of draft-quoitin-bgp-comm-survey-00.txt >Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 15:46:50 +0100 >From: Olivier Bonaventure >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Hello, > >Please find below all the required information for a new Internet draft. >This draft is an individual submission, but is targeted at the ptomaine >and idr working groups. > > Title : A survey of the utilization of the BGP >community attribute > Author(s) : B. Quoitin, O. Bonaventure > Filename : draft-quoitin-bgp-comm-survey-00.txt > Pages : 16 > Date : 20-Feb-02 > > In this document, we describe the two most common utilizations of the > BGP community attribute, namely to tag routes and indicate how a > route should be redistributed by external peers. We then discuss how > often these two types of community attribute are used on the basis of > the RIPE whois database and of BGP table dumps. > >This internet draft is available in text format (without figures) from >http://www.infonet.fundp.ac.be/doc/reports/draft-quoitin-bgp-comm-survey-00.txt > >and in postscript format (with figures) from the following URL >http://www.infonet.fundp.ac.be/doc/reports/draft-quoitin-bgp-comm-survey-00.ps > >Please let us know if you have any problems with the draft. > >Best regards, > > >Olivier Bonaventure and Bruno Quoitin > >-- >http://www.infonet.fundp.ac.be -- "What Problem are you trying to solve?" ***send Cisco questions to the list, so all can benefit -- not directly to me*** ******************************************************************************** Howard C. Berkowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technology Officer, GettLab/Gett Communications Technical Director, CertificationZone.com "retired" Certified Cisco Systems Instructor (CID) #93005 Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=36331&t=36331 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

