RFC 5701 on IPv6 Address Specific BGP Extended Community Attribute
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Subject: RFC 5701 on IPv6 Address Specific BGP Extended Community Attribute
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A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 5701 Title: IPv6 Address Specific BGP Extended Community Attribute Author: Y. Rekhter Status: Standards Track Date: November 2009 Mailbox: yakov@juniper.net Pages: 5 Characters: 9626 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-ietf-l3vpn-v6-ext-communities-02.txt URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5701.txt Current specifications of BGP Extended Communities (RFC 4360) support the IPv4 Address Specific Extended Community, but do not support an IPv6 Address Specific Extended Community. The lack of an IPv6 Address Specific Extended Community may be a problem when an application uses the IPv4 Address Specific Extended Community, and one wants to use this application in a pure IPv6 environment. This document defines a new BGP attribute, the IPv6 Address Specific Extended Community, that addresses this problem. The IPv6 Address Specific Extended Community is similar to the IPv4 Address Specific Extended Community, except that it carries an IPv6 address rather than an IPv4 address. [STANDARDS TRACK] This document is a product of the Layer 3 Virtual Private Networks 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 suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the Internet Official Protocol Standards (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html. For downloading RFCs, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html. Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org. Unless specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for unlimited distribution. The RFC Editor Team USC/Information Sciences Institute