
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Data Collection Standard Communities - per [RFC4360]

(last updated 2007-06-19)

- BGP Extended Communities Types
- BGP Standard Communities Types 
- Two-octet AS Specific Extended Community
- IPv4 Address Specific Extended Community
- Opaque Extended Community


BGP Extended Communities Types:
Registration Rules:
regular, transitive          
0x90-0xbf: Standards Action/Early IANA Allocation
0x00-x3f: First Come First Serve (FCFS)

Name                                     Type Value    Reference
---------------------------------------  ----------    ---------
(no registrations at this time)

regular, non-transitive      
0xd0-0xff: Standards Action/Early IANA Allocation              
0x40-0x7f: First Come First Serve (FCFS)

Name                                     Type Value    Reference
---------------------------------------  ----------    ---------
(no registrations at this time)

extended, transitive         
0x9000-0xbfff: Standards Action/Early IANA Allocation          
0x0000-0x3fff: First Come First Serve (FCFS)

Name                                     Type Value    Reference
---------------------------------------  ----------    ---------
(no registrations at this time)

extended, non-transitive     
0xd000-0xffff: Standards Action/Early IANA Allocation          
0x4000-0x7fff: First Come First Serve (FCFS)

Name                                     Type Value    Reference
---------------------------------------  ----------    ---------
(no registrations at this time)

Experimental Use: 
Regular Types 0x80-0x8f and 0xc0-0xcf 
Extended Types 0x8000-0x8fff and 0xc000-0xcfff

Name                                     Type Value    Reference
---------------------------------------  ----------    ---------
Layer2 Info Extended Community            0x800a       [RFC4761]


BGP Standard Communities Types - per [RFC4384]
Please see the following:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/bgp-data-collection-communities-std


Two-octet AS Specific Extended Community - per [RFC4360]
Registration Rules: First Come First Served (FCFS)
transitive communities:  0x0000-0x00ff
non-transitive communities: 0x4000-0x40ff

Name                                     Type Value    Reference
---------------------------------------  ----------    ---------
two-octet AS specific Route Target       0x0002        [RFC4360]
two-octet AS specific Route Origin       0x0003        [RFC4360]
OSPF Domain Identifier                   0x0005        [RFC4577]
BGP Data Collection                      0x0008        [RFC4384]
Source AS                                0x0009        [draft-ietf-l3vpn-2547bis-mcast-bgp]


IPv4 Address Specific Extended Community - per [RFC4360]
Registration Rules: First Come First Serve (FCFS)
transitive communities: 0x0100-0x01ff
non-transitive communities: 0x4100-0x41ff

Name                                     Type Value    Reference
---------------------------------------  ----------    ---------
IPv4 address specific Route Target       0x0102        [RFC4360]
IPv4 address specific Route Origin       0x0103        [RFC4360]
OSPF Domain Identifier                   0x0105        [RFC4577]
OSPF Router ID                           0x0107        [RFC4577]
VRF Route Import                         0x010a        [draft-ietf-l3vpn-2547bis-mcast-bgp]


Opaque Extended Community - per [RFC4360]
Registration Rules: First Come First Serve (FCFS)
transitive communities: 0x0300-0x03ff
non-transitive communities:  0x4300-0x43ff

Name                                            Type Value    Reference
---------------------------------------         ----------    ---------
Unassigned (deprecated 2007-02-20)              0x0300        
Unassigned (deprecated 2007-02-20)              0x0301        
Unassigned (deprecated 2007-02-20)              0x0302        
OSPF Route Type                                 0x0306        [RFC4577]

References
----------
[RFC4360]   S. Sangli, D. Tappan and Y. Rekhter, "BGP Extended 
            Communities Attribute", RFC 4360, February 2006.

[RFC4384]   D. Meyer, "BGP Communities for Data Collection", 
            RFC 4384, February 2006.

[RFC4577]   E.C. Rosen and P. Psenak, "OSPF as the Provider/Customer Edge Protocol 
            for BGP/MPLS IP VPNs", RFC 4577, June 2006.

[RFC4761]   K. Kompella, Y. Rekhter, "Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS)
            Using BGP for Auto-discovery and Signaling", RFC 4761, January 2007.

[draft-ietf-l3vpn-2547bis-mcast-bgp]
            R. Aggarwal, E. Rosen, T. Morin, Y. Rekhter, and C. Kodeboniya, 
            "BGP Encodings and Procedures for Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs",
            work in progress, 19 June 2007.

(created 2005-08-15)

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