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Title : BGP Based Generic TransPort (bgpBGP)
Authors : Alvaro Retana
Russ White
Jakob Heitz
Filename : draft-white-bgpbgp-00.txt
Pages : 10
Date : 2014-06-16
Abstract:
A wide array of information is being carried (or proposed to be
carried) through BGP peering sessions. While this information is
necessary and valid, BGP was not designed to carry blobs of
information, but rather network layer reachability and information
related directly to forwarding traffic from peer to peer. This
document proposes a new BGP message type with a well defined
structure to use BGP peering sessions for information passed from
provider to provider along edge peering points, the BGP based Generic
transPort (bgpBGP). This message type is designed to allow any pair
of BGP speakers to transfer information within an existing session,
or for BGP peering semantics to be used with multihop sessions
between "information exchange speakers" within an autonomous system.
The new message type is designed to provide flexibility by allowing
the encoding of virtually any information within a BGP session
through the use of type-length-vector formatting.
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https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-white-bgpbgp/
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