Wide BGP Communities update (-04) - input solicited
Jeffrey Haas
jhaas at pfrc.org
Thu Feb 13 21:29:17 UTC 2014
The authors of the Wide BGP Communities Internet-draft would like to solicit
your feedback on the current version of the draft. The intended purpose of
the feature is to provide for next-generation BGP communities.
Why "next-generation"? A few motivations:
- BGP Path Attribute code space is limited. We want to stop burning new
code points for such features when the underlying "mark a route" behavior
is the same.
- Each time we add something with new encoding, we get deployment lag from
needing new code to handle it.
- While it's done the job for a number of years, existing communities force
operators to go through a lot of convoluted policy to do anything from
very common things to subtle things.
The accompanying use case document will be updated soon, but not prior to
the upcoming IETF. Most of our attention the last few weeks has been on
getting the details of the encoding right.
In recognition to a very common use case desired here, note Section 5. A
wide community is being registered with no further semantics than "here's a
list of AS numbers". This permits the desired AS4:AS4 semantic.
-- Jeff
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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:55:54 -0800
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Subject: I-D Action: draft-raszuk-wide-bgp-communities-04.txt
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
Title : Wide BGP Communities Attribute
Authors : Robert Raszuk
Jeffrey Haas
Andrew Lange
Shane Amante
Bruno Decraene
Paul Jakma
Richard A Steenbergen
Filename : draft-raszuk-wide-bgp-communities-04.txt
Pages : 24
Date : 2014-02-13
Abstract:
Route tagging plays an important role in external BGP [RFC4271]
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 [RFC1997].
Such information is important to allow BGP speakers to perform some
mutually agreed 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.
The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-raszuk-wide-bgp-communities/
There's also a htmlized version available at:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-raszuk-wide-bgp-communities-04
A diff from the previous version is available at:
http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-raszuk-wide-bgp-communities-04
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