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       Title     : An Application of the BGP Community Attribute in 
                   Multi-home Routing                                      
       Author(s) : E. Chen, T. Bates
       Filename  : draft-ietf-idr-community-usage-00.txt
       Pages     : 10
       Date      : 03/13/1996

This document presents an application of the BGP community attribute [2] in
simplifying the implementation and configuration of routing policies in the
multi-provider Internet. It shows how the community based configuration can
be used to replace the AS-based customization of the BGP "LOCAL_PREF" 
attribute, a common method used today.  Not only does the technique 
presented simplifies configuration and management at the provider level, it
also represents a paradigm shift in that it gives the potential for the 
customer to control its own routing policy with respect to its service 
provider, as well as providing the ability for policy configuration to be 
done at a prefix based granularity rather than the more common AS based 
granularity.                                                               

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