LISP WG D. Saucez Internet-Draft Inria Intended status: Standards Track L. Iannone Expires: January 23, 2017 Telecom ParisTech July 22, 2016 BGP Extended Communities LCAF Type draft-saucez-lisp-lcaf-bgp-communities-00 Abstract This memo proposes a LCAF type for BGP Extended Communities. 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 January 23, 2017. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2016 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. 1. Introduction Saucez & Iannone Expires January 23, 2017 [Page 1] Internet-Draft LCAF BGP Extended Communities July 2016 This memo proposes a LCAF type for BGP Extended Communities. 2. BGP Extended Communities Attribute When a BGP Extended Community [RFC4360] is stored in the LISP Mapping Database System for either policy or documentation reasons, it can be encoded in a LISP Canonical Address as follows. 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | AFI = 16387 | Rsvd1 | Flags | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Type =XX | Rsvd2 | 8 | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Type high | Type low(*) | | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Value | | | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Figure 1: BGP Extended Communities LCAF Type 3. IANA Considerations This document instructs the IANA to assign a LISP LCAF Type value to use as type for the proposed encoding [I-D.ietf-lisp-lcaf] (replacing the XX value in Figure 1). 4. Security Considerations There are no security considerations for this Internet Draft. 5. Normative References [I-D.ietf-lisp-lcaf] Farinacci, D., Meyer, D., and J. Snijders, "LISP Canonical Address Format (LCAF)", draft-ietf-lisp-lcaf-14 (work in progress), July 2016. [RFC4360] Sangli, S., Tappan, D., and Y. Rekhter, "BGP Extended Communities Attribute", RFC 4360, DOI 10.17487/RFC4360, February 2006, . Saucez & Iannone Expires January 23, 2017 [Page 2] Internet-Draft LCAF BGP Extended Communities July 2016 Authors' Addresses Damien Saucez Inria 2004 route des Lucioles BP 93 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex France Email: damien.saucez@inria.fr Luigi Iannone Telecom ParisTech 23, Avenue d'Italie, CS 51327 75214 PARIS Cedex 13 France Email: luigi.iannone@telecom-paristech.fr Saucez & Iannone Expires January 23, 2017 [Page 3]