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11.3. Extended Community Flow Specification Actions

11.3. Extended Community Flow Specification Actions

The Extended Community Flow Specification Action types defined in this document consist of two parts:

  • Type (BGP Transitive Extended Community Type)
  • Sub-Type

For the type part, IANA maintains a registry entitled "BGP Transitive Extended Community Types". For the purpose of this work (Section 7), IANA has updated the references as shown in the table below. (Note: This document obsoletes both [RFC7674] and [RFC5575], and all references to those documents have been deleted in the registry.)

Type ValueNameReference
0x81Generic Transitive Experimental Use Extended Community Part 2 (Sub-Types are defined in the "Generic Transitive Experimental Use Extended Community Part 2 Sub-Types" Registry)RFC 8955
0x82Generic Transitive Experimental Use Extended Community Part 3 (Sub-Types are defined in the "Generic Transitive Experimental Use Extended Community Part 3 Sub-Types" Registry)RFC 8955

Table 12: Registry: BGP Transitive Extended Community Types

For the sub-type part of the Extended Community Traffic Filtering Actions, IANA maintains the following registries. IANA has updated all names and references according to the tables below and assign a new value for the "Flow spec traffic-rate-packets" Sub-Type. (Note: This document obsoletes both [RFC7674] and [RFC5575], and all references to those documents have been deleted from the registries below.)

Sub-Type ValueNameReference
0x06Flow spec traffic-rate-bytesRFC 8955
0x0cFlow spec traffic-rate-packetsRFC 8955
0x07Flow spec traffic-action (Use of the "Value" field is defined in the "Traffic Action Fields" registry)RFC 8955
0x08Flow spec rt-redirect AS-2octet formatRFC 8955
0x09Flow spec traffic-remarkingRFC 8955

Table 13: Registry: Generic Transitive Experimental Use Extended Community Sub-Types

Sub-Type ValueNameReference
0x08Flow spec rt-redirect IPv4 formatRFC 8955

Table 14: Registry: Generic Transitive Experimental Use Extended Community Part 2 Sub-Types

Sub-Type ValueNameReference
0x08Flow spec rt-redirect AS-4octet formatRFC 8955

Table 15: Registry: Generic Transitive Experimental Use Extended Community Part 3 Sub-Types

Furthermore, IANA has updated the reference for the registries "Generic Transitive Experimental Use Extended Community Part 2 Sub-Types" and "Generic Transitive Experimental Use Extended Community Part 3 Sub-Types" to RFC 8955.

The "traffic-action" Extended Community (Section 7.3) defined in this document has 46 unused bits, which can be used to convey additional meaning. IANA created and maintains a registry entitled "Traffic Action Fields". IANA has updated the reference for this registry to RFC 8955. Furthermore, IANA has updated the references according to the table below. These values should be assigned via IETF Review rules only. (Note: This document obsoletes both [RFC7674] and [RFC5575], and all references to those documents have been deleted from the registry.)

BitNameReference
47Terminal ActionRFC 8955
46SampleRFC 8955

Table 16: Registry: Traffic Action Fields