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Network Working Group                                   Pedro R. Marques
Internet Draft                                       cisco Systems, Inc.
Expiration Date: October 1998
                                                              April 1998


    BGP-4 Capabilities Negotiation for BGP Multiprotocol Extensions


                    draft-marques-bgp4-cap-mp-01.txt

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1. Abstract

   This document defines the usage of the BGP-4 Capabilities Negotiation
   parameter to negotiate the support for a particular Address Family,
   Sub-address Family pair between BGP-4 speakers using BGP-4
   Multiprotocol Extensions.


2. Overview

   BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions [BGP-MP] define two optional non-
   transitive attributes that enable BGP-4 to carry routing information
   for multiple Network Layer protocols. Such attributes are ignored by
   BGP-4 when unrecognized either because the peer doesn't implement or
   is not configured to accept BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions or a given
   (AFI, SAFI) pair.

   The use of BGP-4 Capabilities Parameter [BGP-CAP] allows two peers to



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   negotiate the set of (AFI, SAFI) combinations supported on a
   particular peering relationship.  This document defines a Capability
   Code that can be used for this purpose.


3. MP Capability Code

   BGP speakers that wish to negotiate the set of (AFI, SAFI) pairs
   availiable on a particular peering should use the MP_EXT Capability
   Code (Type 0x01, in hexadecimal).

   The Capability Value associated with the code is a 32 bit value, in
   network byte-order, defined as:


                     0       7      15      23      31
                     +-------+-------+-------+-------+
                     |      AFI      | Res.  | SAFI  |
                     +-------+-------+-------+-------+

   The use and meaning of this fields is as follows:


         AFI  - Address Family Identifier (16 bit) as defined in [RFC-
         1700].

         Res. - Reserved (8 bit) field. Should be set to 0 by the sender
         and ignored by the receiver.

         SAFI - Subsequent Address Family Identifier (8 bit) field as
         defined in [BGP-MP]

   Each (AFI, SAFI) pair is encoded in the Capabilities Optional
   Parameter of a BGP-4 OPEN message as a separate triple <MP_EXT
   Capability Code, Capability Length, MP_EXT Capability Value>. This
   allows the requester to identify which (AFI, SAFI) values are not
   supported by the peer on the receipt of a Unsupported Capability
   NOTIFICATION.













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4. Security Considerations

   Security issues are not discussed in this document.


5. Acknowledgements

   To be supplied.


6. References

   [BGP-4]     "A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)",
               Y. Rekhter and T. Li, RFC1771, March 1995.

   [BGP-CAP]   "Capabilities Negotiation with BGP-4",
               R. Chandra and J. Scudder, Internet Draft, April 1998.
               <draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-cap-neg-01.txt>

   [BGP-MP]    "Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4",
               T. Bates, R. Chandra, D. Katz, and Y. Rekhter,
               RFC 2283, February 1998.

   [RFC1700]   "Assigned Numbers",
               J. Reynolds and J. Postel, RFC 1700, October 1994.


7. Author Information

   Pedro R. Marques
   cisco Systems, Inc.
   170 West Tasman Drive
   San Jose, CA 95134
   email: roque@cisco.com

















Marques                                                         [Page 3]