Protocol Action: BGP communities attribute to Proposed Standard

The IESG <iesg-secretary@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> Wed, 19 June 1996 18:05 UTC

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Subject: Protocol Action: BGP communities attribute to Proposed Standard
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 13:46:03 -0400
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  The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft "BGP communities attribute"
  <draft-ietf-idr-communities-00.txt> as a Proposed Standard.

  The IESG also approved the publication of BGP Community Attribute in
  Multi-home Routing <draft-ietf-idr-community-usage-00.txt> as an
  Informational RFC.


These documents are the product of the Inter-Domain Routing Working
Group. The IESG contact person is Joel Halpern.


Technical Summary

 The new community attribute for BGP provides a mechanism for labelling
 BGP advertisements with common attributes.

 The accompanying usage document provides information on one situation
 where this attribute is useful.


Working Group Summary

 There was no significant dissent in the working group. The group
 agreed that this appeared to be a useful addition to BGP.


Protocol Quality

 The protocol has been reviewed by the Routing Area Director, Joel M.
 Halpern, and appears sound. There are at least two independent
 implementations (cisco and BayNetworks, per the WG Chair).

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