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11. Security Considerations

The extensions defined in this document allow MP-BGP to propagate reachability information about IPv6 VPN routes.

Security considerations for the transport of IPv6 reachability information using BGP are discussed in RFC2545, Section 5, and are equally applicable for the extensions described in this document.

The extensions described in this document for offering IPv6 VPNs use the exact same approach as the approach described in [BGP/MPLS-VPN]. As such, the same security considerations apply with regards to Data Plane security, Control Plane security, and PE and P device security as described in [BGP/MPLS-VPN], Section 13.