RFC 8669: Segment Routing Prefix Segment Identifier Extensions for BGP
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
Segment Routing (SR) leverages the source-routing paradigm. A node steers a packet through an ordered list of instructions called "segments". A segment can represent any instruction, topological or service based. The ingress node prepends an SR header to a packet containing a set of segment identifiers (SIDs). Each SID represents a topological or service-based instruction. Per-flow state is maintained only on the ingress node of the SR domain. An "SR domain" is defined as a single administrative domain for global SID assignment. This document defines an optional, transitive BGP attribute for announcing information about BGP Prefix Segment Identifiers (BGP Prefix-SIDs) and the specification for SR-MPLS SIDs.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC8669
- Published
- December 2019
- Authors
- S. Previdi; C. Filsfils; A. Lindem; A. Sreekantiah; H. Gredler
- Status
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- rtg
- Pages
- 15
- Also known as
- —
Topics
Related documents
Ranked automatically by shared keywords, IETF area and stream — not by editorial selection.
- RFC 8670BGP Prefix Segment in Large-Scale Data CentersCurrent
December 2019
- RFC 8502L2L3 VPN Multicast MIBCurrent
December 2018
- RFC 8287Label Switched Path (LSP) Ping/Traceroute for Segment Routing (SR) IGP-Prefix and IGP-Adjacency Segment Identifiers (SIDs) with MPLS Data PlanesUpdated
December 2017
- RFC 9125Gateway Auto-Discovery and Route Advertisement for Site Interconnection Using Segment RoutingCurrent
August 2021
- RFC 9857Advertisement of Segment Routing Policies Using BGP - Link StateCurrent
October 2025
- RFC 6517Mandatory Features in a Layer 3 Multicast BGP/MPLS VPN SolutionCurrent
February 2012
- RFC 8667IS-IS Extensions for Segment RoutingCurrent
December 2019
- RFC 8666OSPFv3 Extensions for Segment RoutingCurrent
December 2019
Also filed under
About this page
The document record above — title, authors, date, status, stream, area, relationships, DOI and errata — is imported verbatim from the public RFC Editor index. The “in plain English” section is editorial: written by The metasystema editorial team, not part of the RFC. Where the two differ, the RFC text governs.
Last checked against the RFC Editor index on . RFCs are never revised after publication; changes are issued as new documents.
Data sources · Editorial policy · Report a correction · What is an RFC?