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Title : Wide BGP Communities Attribute
Author(s) : Robert Raszuk
Jeffrey Haas
Shane Amante
Richard A Steenbergen
Bruno Decraene
Paul Jakma
Filename : draft-raszuk-wide-bgp-communities-02.txt
Pages : 17
Date : 2011-07-11
Route tagging plays an important role in external BGP relations, in
communicating various routing policies between peers. It is also a
very common best practice among operators to propagate various
additional information about routes intra-domain. The most common
tool used today to attach various information about routes is through
the use of BGP communities.
Such information is important to allow BGP speakers to perform some
mutually agreed upon actions without the need to maintain a separate
offline database for each tuple of prefix and associated set of
action entries.
This document defines a new encoding which will enhance and simplify
what can be accomplished today with the use of BGP communities. The
most important addition this specification makes over currently
defined BGP communities is the ability to specify, carry as well as
use for execution an operator's defined set of parameters. It also
provides an extensible platform for any new community encoding needs
in the future.
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