RFC 9012: The BGP Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute

This document defines a BGP path attribute known as the "Tunnel Encapsulation attribute", which can be used with BGP UPDATEs of various Subsequent Address…

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Outgoing relationships (32 related RFCs)

Updates, Informative reference — RFC 5640: Load-Balancing for Mesh Softwires
Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 5512: The BGP Encapsulation Subsequent Address Family Identifier (SAFI) and the BGP Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute
Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 5566: BGP IPsec Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 8174: Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words
Normative reference — RFC 8126: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Normative reference — RFC 4271: A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
Normative reference — RFC 2474: Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
Normative reference — RFC 3032: MPLS Label Stack Encoding
Normative reference — RFC 2784: Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
Normative reference — RFC 4760: Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
Normative reference — RFC 3270: Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Support of Differentiated Services
Normative reference — RFC 5462: Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Stack Entry: "EXP" Field Renamed to "Traffic Class" Field
Normative reference — RFC 3931: Layer Two Tunneling Protocol - Version 3 (L2TPv3)
Normative reference — RFC 2890: Key and Sequence Number Extensions to GRE
Normative reference — RFC 7606: Revised Error Handling for BGP UPDATE Messages
Normative reference — RFC 7348: Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN): A Framework for Overlaying Virtualized Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks
Normative reference — RFC 6811: BGP Prefix Origin Validation
Normative reference — RFC 4023: Encapsulating MPLS in IP or Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
Normative reference — RFC 5129: Explicit Congestion Marking in MPLS
Normative reference — RFC 6890: Special-Purpose IP Address Registries
Normative reference — RFC 7637: NVGRE: Network Virtualization Using Generic Routing Encapsulation
Normative reference — RFC 8669: Segment Routing Prefix Segment Identifier Extensions for BGP
Informative reference — RFC 4364: BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
Informative reference — RFC 8402: Segment Routing Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 6514: BGP Encodings and Procedures for Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs
Informative reference — RFC 4272: BGP Security Vulnerabilities Analysis
Informative reference — RFC 8365: A Network Virtualization Overlay Solution Using Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
Informative reference — RFC 8277: Using BGP to Bind MPLS Labels to Address Prefixes
Informative reference — RFC 8205: BGPsec Protocol Specification
Informative reference — RFC 7510: Encapsulating MPLS in UDP
Informative reference — RFC 5565: Softwire Mesh Framework

Incoming relationships (17 related RFCs)

Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 9830: Advertising Segment Routing Policies in BGP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9256: Segment Routing Policy Architecture
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9136: IP Prefix Advertisement in Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9135: Integrated Routing and Bridging in Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9014: Interconnect Solution for Ethernet VPN (EVPN) Overlay Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9015: BGP Control Plane for the Network Service Header in Service Function Chaining
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9723: BGP Colored Prefix Routing (CPR) for Services Based on Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9013: OSPF Advertisement of Tunnel Encapsulations
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9125: Gateway Auto-Discovery and Route Advertisement for Site Interconnection Using Segment Routing
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9377: IS-IS Flood Reflection
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9832: BGP Classful Transport Planes
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9863: Path Computation Element Protocol (PCEP) Extension for Color
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9871: BGP Color-Aware Routing (CAR)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 10018: Multicast and Ethernet VPN with Segment Routing Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) and Ingress Replication
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9252: BGP Overlay Services Based on Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9469: Applicability of Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) to Network Virtualization over Layer 3 (NVO3) Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9689: Use Cases for a PCE as a Central Controller (PCECC)