RFC 8670: BGP Prefix Segment in Large-Scale Data Centers
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This document describes the motivation for, and benefits of, applying Segment Routing (SR) in BGP-based large-scale data centers. It describes the design to deploy SR in those data centers for both the MPLS and IPv6 data planes.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC8670
- Published
- December 2019
- Authors
- C. Filsfils; S. Previdi; G. Dawra; E. Aries; P. Lapukhov
- Status
- INFORMATIONAL
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- rtg
- Pages
- 18
- Also known as
- —
Topics
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