RFC 9086 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2021

Border Gateway Protocol - Link State Extensions for Segment Routing BGP Egress Peer Engineering

Overview

RFC 9086, “Border Gateway Protocol - Link State Extensions for Segment Routing BGP Egress Peer Engineering”, is a Proposed Standard document published in August 2021 by S. Previdi, K. Talaulikar, C. Filsfils, K. Patel, S. Ray, J. Dong. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

A node steers a packet through a controlled set of instructions, called segments, by prepending the packet with a list of segment identifiers (SIDs). A segment can represent any instruction, topological or service based. SR segments allow steering a flow through any topological path and service chain while maintaining per-flow state only at the ingress node of the SR domain.

This document describes an extension to Border Gateway Protocol - Link State (BGP-LS) for advertisement of BGP Peering Segments along with their BGP peering node information so that efficient BGP Egress Peer Engineering (EPE) policies and strategies can be computed based on Segment Routing.

Abstract as published in the RFC, via rfc-editor.org.

What “Proposed Standard” means

An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.

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