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Network Working Group                   Yakov Rekhter (Juniper Networks)
Internet Draft                         Srihari R. Sangli (Cisco Systems)
Expiration Date: May 2009                  Daniel Tappan (Cisco Systems)
Intended Status: Proposed Standard

             Four-octet AS Specific BGP Extended Community

             draft-ietf-l3vpn-as4octet-ext-community-02.txt


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Abstract

   This document defines a new type of a BGP extended community - four-
   octet AS specific extended community. This community allows to carry
   4 octet autonomous system numbers.


Specification of Requirements

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].


1. Introduction

   This document defines a new type of BGP extended community
   ([RFC4360]) - four-octet AS specific extended community. This type of
   extended community is similar to the two-octet AS specific extended
   community, except that it can carry a four octets autonomous system
   number.


2. Four-octet AS specific extended community

   This is an extended type with Type Field comprising of 2 octets and
   Value Field comprising of 6 octets.


      0                   1                   2                   3
      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     | 0x02 or 0x42  |   Sub-Type    |    Global Administrator       :
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     : Global Administrator (cont.)  |    Local Administrator        |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+


   The value of the high-order octet of this extended type is either
   0x02 (for transitive communities) or 0x42 (for non-transitive commu-
   nities). The low-order octet of this extended type is used to indi-
   cate sub-types.

   The Value Field consists of two sub-fields:

      Global Administrator sub-field: 4 octets

         This sub-field contains a 4-octets Autonomous System number



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         assigned by IANA.

      Local Administrator sub-field: 2 octets

         The organization identified by Autonomous System number in the
         Global Administrator sub-field, can encode any information in
         this sub-field.  The format and meaning of the value encoded in
         this sub-field should be defined by the sub-type of the commu-
         nity.


3. Considerations for two-octet Autonomous Systems

   As per [RFC4893], a two-octet Autonomous System number can be con-
   verted into a 4-octet Autonomous System number by setting the two
   high-order octets of the 4-octet field to zero.

   As a consequence, at least in principle an autonomous system that
   uses a two-octet Autonomous System number could use either two-octet
   or four-octet AS specific extended communities. This is undesirable,
   as both communities would be treated as different, even if they had
   the same Sub-Type and Local Administrator values.

   Therefore, for backward compatibility with existing deployments, and
   to avoid inconsistencies between two-octet and four-octet specific
   extended communities, autonomous systems that use two-octet
   Autonomous System numbers SHOULD use two-octet AS specific extended
   communities rather than four-octet AS specific extended communities.


4. IANA Considerations

   This document defines a class of extended communities called four-
   octet AS specific extended community for which the IANA is to create
   and maintain a registry entitled Four-octet AS Specific Extended Com-
   munity. All the communities in this class are of extended Types.
   Future assignment are to be made using the "First Come First Served"
   policy defined in [RFC5226]. The Type values for the transitive com-
   munities of the four-octet AS specific extended community class are
   0x0200-0x02ff, and for the non-transitive communities of that class
   are 0x4200-0x42ff. Assignments consist of a name and the value.

   This document makes the following assignments for the four-octet AS
   specific extended community:

      Name                                     Type Value
      ----                                     ----------
      four-octet AS specific Route Target       0x0202



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      four-octet AS specific Route Origin       0x0203


5. Security Considerations

   All the security considerations for BGP Extended Communities apply
   here.


6. Intellectual Property Statement

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   WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


8. Disclaimer of validity:

   The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any
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   pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in
   this document or the extent to which any license under such rights
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   made any independent effort to identify any such rights.  Information
   on the procedures with respect to rights in RFC documents can be
   found in BCP 78 and BCP 79. Copies of IPR disclosures made to the
   IETF Secretariat and any assurances of licenses to be made available,
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   The IETF invites any interested party to bring to its attention any
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   this standard.  Please address the information to the IETF at ietf-
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9. Acknowledgements

   Thanks to Bruno Decraene for his contributions to this document.


10. Normative References

   [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
   Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC5226] Narten, T., Alvestrand, H., "Guidelines for Writing an IANA
   Considerations Section in RFCs", RFC5226, May 2008.

   [RFC4360]  Srihari R. Sangli, Daniel Tappan, Yakov Rekhter, "BGP
   Extended Communities Attribute", RFC 4360, February 2006.

   [RFC4893] Vohra, Q., Chen, E., "BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number
   Space", RFC 4893, May 2007.







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11. Non-normative References



12. Author Information


   Yakov Rekhter
   Juniper Networks, Inc.
   e-mail: yakov@juniper.net

   Srihari R. Sangli
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   e-mail: rsrihari@cisco.com

   Dan Tappan
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   250 Apollo Drive
   Chelmsford, MA 01824
   e-mail: tappan@cisco.com































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