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RFC 7447: Deprecation of BGP Entropy Label Capability Attribute

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The BGP Entropy Label Capability attribute is defined in RFC 6790. Regrettably, it has a bug: although RFC 6790 mandates that routers incapable of processing Entropy Labels must remove the attribute, fulfillment of this requirement cannot be guaranteed in practice. This specification deprecates the attribute. A forthcoming document will propose a replacement.

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Document ID
RFC7447
Published
February 2015
Authors
J. Scudder; K. Kompella
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
rtg
Pages
4
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RFC 6790

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