Common utilizations of the BGP community attribute

Olivier Bonaventure and Bruno Quoitin

Since its introduction in RFC1997, the BGP community attribute has been used by many Autonomous Systems to build more scalable routing policies. We describe here the most common utilizations of the BGP community attribute and provide some examples.

IETF draft, work in progress, draft-bq-bgp-communities-00.txt, June 2003.

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