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RFC 8092
Title: BGP Large Communities Attribute
Author: J. Heitz, Ed.,
J. Snijders, Ed.,
K. Patel,
I. Bagdonas,
N. Hilliard
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: February 2017
Mailbox: jheitz@cisco.com,
job@ntt.net,
keyur@arrcus.com,
ibagdona.ietf@gmail.com,
nick@inex.ie
Pages: 8
Characters: 15979
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-idr-large-community-12.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8092
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8092
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 all Autonomous
System Numbers (ASNs) including four-octet ASNs.
This document is a product of the Inter-Domain Routing Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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