The IESG has approved the following document: - 'BGP Link Bandwidth Extended Community' (draft-ietf-idr-link-bandwidth-23.txt) as Proposed Standard
This document is the product of the Inter-Domain Routing Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Gunter Van de Velde, Jim Guichard and Ketan Talaulikar. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-link-bandwidth/ Technical Summary This document specifies a type of BGP Extended Community that enables routers to perform weighted load-balancing in multipath scenarios. Working Group Summary There is broad agreement and support for this document. The document took 16 years to progress through the WG. The initial document only specified the non-transitive type of extended community and the transitive type was introduced more recently to reflect deployment requirements and some implementations. This led to significant discussions in the WG to work out coexistence between the two types and operational considerations in a mixed deployment. The document reflects the discussed consensus. Document Quality There are multiple implementations and deployments of this feature with the two different transitivity types. More recently, there are implementations that are rolling out support for both the types and their coexistence in deployments as captured in the document. The document has undergone review in the BESS WG where VPN technologies that use this feature are developed. There is no YANG or MIB in this document. It has gone through RTG and OPS directorate reviews. Personnel The Document Shepherd for this document is Jeffrey Haas. The Responsible Area Director is Ketan Talaulikar. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
