RFC 4360 on BGP Extended Communities Attribute

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        RFC 4360

        Title:      BGP Extended Communities Attribute 
        Author:     S. Sangli,  D. Tappan, 
                    Y. Rekhter
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       February 2006
        Mailbox:    rsrihari@cisco.com, 
                    tappan@cisco.com, 
                    yakov@juniper.net
        Pages:      12
        Characters: 24145
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ext-communities-09.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4360.txt

This document describes the \"extended community\" BGP-4 attribute.  This attribute provides a mechanism for labeling information carried
in BGP-4.  These labels can be used to control
the distribution of this information, or for other applications.  [STANDARDS TRACK]

This document is a product of the Inter-Domain Routing Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet standards track
protocol for the Internet community,and requests discussion and
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of the Internet Official Protocol Standards (STD 1) for 
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