The IESG has approved the following document: - 'BGP Extended Communities Attribute' (draft-ietf-idr-rfc4360-bis-09.txt) as Proposed Standard
This document is the product of the Inter-Domain Routing Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Gunter Van de Velde, Jim Guichard and Ketan Talaulikar. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-rfc4360-bis/ Technical Summary This document describes the "extended community" BGP-4 attribute. This attribute provides a mechanism for labeling information carried in BGP-4. These labels can be used to control the distribution of this information, or for other applications. This document obsoletes RFC 4360. This document also updates RFC 5701 by incorporating the operations section. Working Group Summary There was good discussion and participation between a diverse set of WG participants on producing this document to revise the base RFC4360 to clarify on an important aspect related to handling of transitivity property. There was some discussion on changing the type/sub-type convention and how extended communities are organized, but the WG converged on not changing things which were widely implemented and deployed. Document Quality There are multiple implementations of the changes introduced by this document to the base RFC4360. The base RFC4360 itself has widespread support and deployment. Many other implementations are in the process of supporting the new changes. The document has undergone a good set of reviews within the WG as well as from BGPDIR and RTGDIR. Personnel The Document Shepherd for this document is Keyur Patel. The Responsible Area Director is Ketan Talaulikar. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
