RFC 4360: BGP Extended Communities Attribute

This document describes the "extended community" BGP-4 attribute. This attribute provides a mechanism for labeling information carried in BGP-4. These labels…

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Outgoing relationships (6 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 4271: A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
Normative reference — RFC 2434: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Normative reference — RFC 1997: BGP Communities Attribute
Normative reference — RFC 4020: Early IANA Allocation of Standards Track Code Points
Informative reference — RFC 4364: BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

Incoming relationships (30 related RFCs)

Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 7606: Revised Error Handling for BGP UPDATE Messages
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 7153: IANA Registries for BGP Extended Communities
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7432: BGP MPLS-Based Ethernet VPN
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6514: BGP Encodings and Procedures for Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4761: Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) Using BGP for Auto-Discovery and Signaling
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4684: Constrained Route Distribution for Border Gateway Protocol/MultiProtocol Label Switching (BGP/MPLS) Internet Protocol (IP) Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6074: Provisioning, Auto-Discovery, and Signaling in Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks (L2VPNs)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8955: Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5512: The BGP Encapsulation Subsequent Address Family Identifier (SAFI) and the BGP Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6565: OSPFv3 as a Provider Edge to Customer Edge (PE-CE) Routing Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5575: Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5701: IPv6 Address Specific BGP Extended Community Attribute
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6624: Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks Using BGP for Auto-Discovery and Signaling
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7947: Internet Exchange BGP Route Server
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9830: Advertising Segment Routing Policies in BGP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7524: Inter-Area Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) Segmented Label Switched Paths (LSPs)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9573: MVPN/EVPN Tunnel Aggregation with Common Labels
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4384: BGP Communities for Data Collection
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5668: 4-Octet AS Specific BGP Extended Community
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7674: Clarification of the Flowspec Redirect Extended Community
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7902: Registry and Extensions for P-Multicast Service Interface Tunnel Attribute Flags
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8097: BGP Prefix Origin Validation State Extended Community
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9625: EVPN Optimized Inter-Subnet Multicast (OISM) Forwarding
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9125: Gateway Auto-Discovery and Route Advertisement for Site Interconnection Using Segment Routing
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9832: BGP Classful Transport Planes
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9871: BGP Color-Aware Routing (CAR)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 10005: BGP Link Bandwidth Extended Community
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8092: BGP Large Communities Attribute
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7948: Internet Exchange BGP Route Server Operations
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9889: A Realization of Network Slices for 5G Networks Using Current IP/MPLS Technologies