The IESG has received a request from the Operations and Management Area Working Group WG (opsawg) to consider the following document: - 'Export BGP community information in IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX)' <draft-ietf-opsawg-ipfix-bgp-community-07.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 2018-09-24. 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 By introducing new Information Elements (IEs), this draft extends the existing BGP related IEs to enable IPFIX [RFC7011] to export the BGP community information, including the information of BGP standard community [RFC1997], BGP extended community [RFC4360], and BGP large community [RFC8092]. Network traffic information can then be accumulated and analysed at the BGP community granularity, which represents the traffic of different kinds of customers, services, or geographical regions according to the network operator's BGP community planning. Network traffic information at the BGP community granularity is useful for network traffic analysis and engineering. To clarify, no new BGP community attribute is defined in this document and this document has no purpose to replace BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) defined in RFC7854. The IEs introduced in this document are used by IPFIX together with other IEs to facilitate the IPFIX collector analyzing the network traffic at the BGP community granularity without running the heavy BGP protocol. When needed, the mediator or collector can use the IEs introduced in this document to report the BGP community related traffic flow information it gets either from exporters or through local correlation to other IPFIX devices. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-opsawg-ipfix-bgp-community/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-opsawg-ipfix-bgp-community/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2964/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/3165/
