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RFC 8642: Policy Behavior for Well-Known BGP Communities

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Well-known BGP communities are manipulated differently across various current implementations, resulting in difficulties for operators. Network operators should deploy consistent community handling across their networks while taking the inconsistent behaviors from the various BGP implementations into consideration. This document recommends specific actions to limit future inconsistency: namely, BGP implementors must not create further inconsistencies from this point forward. These behavioral changes, though subtle, actually update RFC 1997.

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Document ID
RFC8642
Published
August 2019
Authors
J. Borkenhagen; R. Bush; R. Bonica; S. Bayraktar
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
ops
Pages
7
Also known as
—
Updates:
RFC 1997

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