The IESG has received a request from the Global Routing Operations WG (grow) to consider the following document: - 'BLACKHOLE BGP Community for Blackholing' <draft-ietf-grow-blackholing-00.txt> as Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2016-07-04. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This document describes the use of a well-known Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) community for blackholing at IP networks and Internet Exchange Points (IXP). This well-known advisory transitive BGP community, namely BLACKHOLE, allows an origin AS to specify that a neighboring IP network or IXP should blackhole a specific IP prefix. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-grow-blackholing/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-grow-blackholing/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
