The IESG has received a request from the Inter-Domain Routing WG (idr) to consider the following document: - 'BGP Large Communities' <draft-ietf-idr-large-community-09.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 2016-12-16. 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 BGP Large Communities attribute, an extension to BGP-4. This attribute provides a mechanism to signal opaque information within separate namespaces to aid in routing management. The attribute is suitable for use with four-octet Autonomous System Numbers. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-large-community/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-large-community/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
