Internet Engineering Task Force B. Kothari Internet-Draft Cisco Systems Updates: 4360 (if approved) K. Kompella Intended status: Standards Track Juniper Networks Expires: April 21, 2011 October 18, 2010 Recategorization of Extended Communities 0x8006-0x800a draft-kothari-extcomm-codepoints-01.txt Abstract This document requests IANA to recategorize several entries in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Extended Communities registry from "Experimental Use" to non-experimental. Status of this Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This Internet-Draft will expire on April 21, 2011. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2010 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Kothari & Kompella Expires April 21, 2011 [Page 1] Internet-Draft Recategorization of Extended Communities October 2010 1. Introduction The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Extended Communities registry lists Extended Communities 0x8000-0x8fff as Experimental Use, in keeping with [RFC4360]. In practice, the use of Extended Communities 0x8006- 0x8009, defined in [RFC5575] and 0x800a, defined in [RFC4761] is not Experimental. The most straightforward solution to this problem is to recategorize those code points as Standards Action. 2. Discussion The other solution to this issue would be to update the relevant specifications to use code points from the currently defined Standards Action space. Given that there is deployment of the currently-allocated code points, there would be non-negligible development, testing and operational expense to migrate to new code points, without any significant benefit being derived. Given that there is no evident disadvantage to simply recategorizing the current code points, that solution is to be preferred. 3. Acknowledgements Thanks to Andy Malis for his contribution. 4. IANA Considerations This document requests IANA recategorize Extended Communities 0x8006- 0x800a as Standards Action. It is noted that the relevant specifications are already Standards Track RFCs. 5. Security Considerations No security considerations arise from this document. 6. References 6.1. Normative References [RFC4360] Sangli, S., Tappan, D., and Y. Rekhter, "BGP Extended Communities Attribute", RFC 4360, February 2006. Kothari & Kompella Expires April 21, 2011 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Recategorization of Extended Communities October 2010 6.2. Informative References [RFC4761] Kompella, K. and Y. Rekhter, "Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) Using BGP for Auto-Discovery and Signaling", RFC 4761, January 2007. [RFC5575] Marques, P., Sheth, N., Raszuk, R., Greene, B., Mauch, J., and D. McPherson, "Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules", RFC 5575, August 2009. Authors' Addresses Bhupesh Kothari Cisco Systems 3750 Cisco Way San Jose, CA 95134 USA Email: bhupesh@cisco.com Kireeti Kompella Juniper Networks 1194 N. Mathilda Ave Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Email: kireeti@juniper.net Kothari & Kompella Expires April 21, 2011 [Page 3]