{"draft":"draft-ietf-grow-wkc-behavior-08","doc_id":"RFC8642","title":"Policy Behavior for Well-Known BGP Communities","authors":["J. Borkenhagen","R. Bush","R. Bonica","S. Bayraktar"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"7","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Global Routing Operations","abstract":"Well-known BGP communities are manipulated differently across various\r\ncurrent implementations, resulting in difficulties for operators.\r\nNetwork operators should deploy consistent community handling across\r\ntheir networks while taking the inconsistent behaviors from the\r\nvarious BGP implementations into consideration.  This document\r\nrecommends specific actions to limit future inconsistency: namely,\r\nBGP implementors must not create further inconsistencies from this\r\npoint forward.  These behavioral changes, though subtle, actually\r\nupdate RFC 1997.","pub_date":"August 2019","keywords":["Operations","Inter-Provider Communication"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":["RFC1997"],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC8642","errata_url":null}