Subject: Re: [GROW] New Version Notification for draft-ymbk-grow-blackholing-00.txt

From: Thomas King <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 20:51:40 +0000

Hi Everybody,

we submitted this document in order to unify and simplify triggering blackholing at IXPs. We propose to define a well-known BGP community for this.

Any feedback is highly appreciated.

Best regards,
Thomas

> On 28 May 2015, at 20:59, [email-masked] wrote:
> 
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> A new version of I-D, draft-ymbk-grow-blackholing-00.txt
> has been successfully submitted by Yordan Kritski and posted to the
> IETF repository.
> 
> Name:		draft-ymbk-grow-blackholing
> Revision:	00
> Title:		BLACKHOLEIXP BGP Community for Blackholing at IXPs
> Document date:	2015-05-28
> Group:		Individual Submission
> Pages:		7
> URL:            https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ymbk-grow-blackholing-00.txt
> Status:         https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ymbk-grow-blackholing/
> Htmlized:       https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ymbk-grow-blackholing-00
> 
> 
> Abstract:
> This document describes the use of a well-known Border Gateway
> Protocol (BGP) community for blackholing at Internet Exchange Points
> (IXP).  This well-known advisory transitive BGP community, namely
> BLACKHOLEIXP, allows an origin AS to specify through the route server
> that IXPs should blackhole a specific route.
> 
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