The IESG has approved the following document: - 'BLACKHOLE BGP Community for Blackholing' (draft-ietf-grow-blackholing-03.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Global Routing Operations Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Benoit Claise and Joel Jaeggli. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-grow-blackholing/ Technical Summary 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. Working Group Summary The working group had decent discussion on this draft and consensus on content/intent. Document Quality The proposal does not include code requirements, but does include use of a standard bgp community 'BLACKHOLE' to accomplish a task (discard traffic inside the connected networks). The IETF Last call resulted in significant changes to the document inclusive of a change to the intended state to informational. Personnel Shepherd: christopher.morrow@gmail.com AD: joelja@bogus.com
