Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) N. Hilliard
Request for Comments: 7948 INEX
Category: Informational E. Jasinska
ISSN: 2070-1721 BigWave IT
R. Raszuk
Bloomberg LP
N. Bakker
Akamai Technologies B.V.
September 2016
Internet Exchange BGP Route Server Operations
Abstract
The popularity of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) brings new
challenges to interconnecting networks. While bilateral External BGP
(EBGP) sessions between exchange participants were historically the
most common means of exchanging reachability information over an IXP,
the overhead associated with this interconnection method causes
serious operational and administrative scaling problems for IXP
participants.
Multilateral interconnection using Internet route servers can
dramatically reduce the administrative and operational overhead
associated with connecting to IXPs; in some cases, route servers are
used by IXP participants as their preferred means of exchanging
routing information.
This document describes operational considerations for multilateral
interconnections at IXPs.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
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(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents
approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet
Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 7841.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7948.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Bilateral BGP Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Multilateral Interconnection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Operational Considerations for Route Server Installations . . 6
4.1. Path Hiding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2. Route Server Scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2.1. Tackling Scaling Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.2.1.1. View Merging and Decomposition . . . . . . . . . 7
4.2.1.2. Destination Splitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.2.1.3. NEXT_HOP Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.3. Prefix Leakage Mitigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.4. Route Server Redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.5. AS_PATH Consistency Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.6. Export Routing Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.6.1. BGP Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.6.2. Internet Routing Registries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.6.3. Client-Accessible Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.7. Layer 2 Reachability Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.8. BGP NEXT_HOP Hijacking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.9. BGP Operations and Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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1. Introduction
Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) provide IP data interconnection
facilities for their participants, using data link-layer protocols
such as Ethernet. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) [RFC4271] is
normally used to facilitate exchange of network reachability
information over these media.
As bilateral interconnection between IXP participants requires
operational and administrative overhead, BGP route servers [RFC7947]
are often deployed by IXP operators to provide a simple and
convenient means of interconnecting IXP participants with each other.
A route server redistributes BGP routes received from its BGP clients
to other clients according to a prespecified policy, and it can be
viewed as similar to an EBGP equivalent of an Internal BGP (IBGP)
[RFC4456] route reflector.
Route servers at IXPs require careful management, and it is important
for route server operators to thoroughly understand both how they
work and what their limitations are. In this document, we discuss
several issues of operational relevance to route server operators and
provide recommendations to help route server operators provision a
reliable interconnection service.
1.1. Notational Conventions
The keywords "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
"OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
[RFC2119].
The phrase "BGP route" in this document should be interpreted as the
term "Route" described in [RFC4271].
2. Bilateral BGP Sessions
Bilateral interconnection is a method of interconnecting routers
using individual BGP sessions between each pair of participant
routers on an IXP, in order to exchange reachability information. If
an IXP participant wishes to implement an open interconnection policy
-- i.e., a policy of interconnecting with as many other IXP
participants as possible -- it is necessary for the participant to
liaise with each of their intended interconnection partners.
Interconnection can then be implemented bilaterally by configuring a
BGP session on both participants' routers to exchange network
reachability information. If each exchange participant interconnects
with each other participant, a full mesh of BGP sessions is needed,
as shown in Figure 1.
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___ ___
/ \ / \
..| AS1 |..| AS2 |..
: \___/____\___/ :
: | \ / | :
: | \ / | :
: IXP | \/ | :
: | /\ | :
: | / \ | :
: _|_/____\_|_ :
: / \ / \ :
..| AS3 |..| AS4 |..
\___/ \___/
Figure 1: Full-Mesh Interconnection at an IXP
Figure 1 depicts an IXP platform with four connected routers,
administered by four separate exchange participants, each of them
with a locally unique Autonomous System (AS) number: AS1, AS2, AS3,
and AS4. The lines between the routers depict BGP sessions; the
dotted edge represents the IXP border. Each of these four
participants wishes to exchange traffic with all other participants;
this is accomplished by configuring a full mesh of BGP sessions on
each router connected to the exchange, resulting in six BGP sessions
across the IXP fabric.
The number of BGP sessions at an exchange has an upper bound of
n*(n-1)/2, where n is the number of routers at the exchange. As many
exchanges have large numbers of participating networks, the amount of
administrative and operation overhead required to implement an open
interconnection scales quadratically. New participants to an IXP
require significant initial resourcing in order to gain value from
their IXP connection, while existing exchange participants need to
commit ongoing resources in order to benefit from interconnecting
with these new participants.
3. Multilateral Interconnection
Multilateral interconnection is implemented using a route server
configured to distribute BGP routes among client routers. The route
server preserves the BGP NEXT_HOP attribute from all received BGP
routes and passes them with unchanged NEXT_HOP to its route server
clients according to its configured routing policy, as described in
[RFC7947]. Using this method of exchanging BGP routes, an IXP
participant router can receive an aggregated list of BGP routes from
all other route server clients using a single BGP session to the
route server instead of depending on BGP sessions with each router at
the exchange. This reduces the overall number of BGP sessions at an
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Internet exchange from n*(n-1)/2 to n, where n is the number of
routers at the exchange.
Although a route server uses BGP to exchange reachability information
with each of its clients, it does not forward traffic itself and is
therefore not a router.
In practical terms, this allows dense interconnection between IXP
participants with low administrative overhead and significantly
simpler and smaller router configurations. In particular, new IXP
participants benefit from immediate and extensive interconnection,
while existing route server participants receive reachability
information from these new participants without necessarily having to
modify their configurations.
___ ___
/ \ / \
..| AS1 |..| AS2 |..
: \___/ \___/ :
: \ / :
: \ / :
: \__/ :
: IXP / \ :
: | RS | :
: \____/ :
: / \ :
: / \ :
: __/ \__ :
: / \ / \ :
..| AS3 |..| AS4 |..
\___/ \___/
Figure 2: IXP-Based Interconnection with Route Server
As illustrated in Figure 2, each router on the IXP fabric requires
only a single BGP session to the route server, from which it can
receive reachability information for all other routers on the IXP
that also connect to the route server.
Multilateral and bilateral interconnections between different
autonomous systems are not exclusive to each other, and it is not
unusual to have both sorts of sessions configured in parallel at an
IXP. This configuration will lead to additional paths being
available to the BGP Decision Process, which will calculate a best
path as normal.
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4. Operational Considerations for Route Server Installations
4.1. Path Hiding
"Path hiding" is a term used in [RFC7947] to describe the process
whereby a route server may mask individual paths by applying
conflicting routing policies to its Loc-RIB. When this happens,
route server clients receive incomplete information from the route
server about network reachability.
There are several approaches that may be used to mitigate against the
effect of path hiding; these are described in [RFC7947]. However,
the only method that does not require explicit support from the route
server client is for the route server itself to maintain an
individual Loc-RIB for each client that is the subject of conflicting
routing policies.
4.2. Route Server Scaling
While deployment of multiple Loc-RIBs on the route server presents a
simple way to avoid the path-hiding problem noted in Section 4.1,
this approach requires significantly more computing resources on the
route server than where a single Loc-RIB is deployed for all clients.
As the BGP Decision Process [RFC4271] must be applied to all Loc-RIBs
deployed on the route server, both CPU and memory requirements on the
host computer scale approximately according to O(P * N), where P is
the total number of unique paths received by the route server, and N
is the number of route server clients that require a unique Loc-RIB.
As this is a super-linear scaling relationship, large route servers
may derive benefit from deploying per-client Loc-RIBs only where they
are required.
Regardless of whether any Loc-RIB optimization technique is
implemented, the route server's theoretical upper-bound network
bandwidth requirements will scale according to O(P_tot * N), where
P_tot is the total number of unique paths received by the route
server, and N is the total number of route server clients. In the
case where P_avg (the arithmetic mean number of unique paths received
per route server client) remains roughly constant even as the number
of connected clients increases, the total number of prefixes will
equal the average number of prefixes multiplied by the number of
clients. Symbolically, this can be written as P_tot = P_avg * N. If
we assume that in the worst case, each prefix is associated with a
different set of BGP path attributes, so must be transmitted
individually, the network bandwidth scaling function can be rewritten
as O((P_avg * N) * N) or O(N^2). This quadratic upper bound on the
network traffic requirements indicates that the route server model
may not scale well for larger numbers of clients.
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In practice, most prefixes will be associated with a limited number
of BGP path attribute sets, allowing more efficient transmission of
BGP routes from the route server than the theoretical analysis
suggests. In the analysis above, P_tot will increase monotonically
according to the number of clients, but it will have an upper limit
of the size of the full default-free routing table of the network in
which the IXP is located. Observations from production route servers
have shown that most route server clients generally avoid using
custom routing policies, and consequently, the route server may not
need to deploy per-client Loc-RIBs. These practical bounds reduce
the theoretical worst-case scaling scenario to the point where route
server deployments are manageable even on larger IXPs.
4.2.1. Tackling Scaling Issues
The problem of scaling route servers still presents serious practical
challenges and requires careful attention. Scaling analysis
indicates problems in three key areas: route processor CPU overhead
associated with BGP Decision Process calculations, the memory
requirements for handling many different BGP path entries, and the
network traffic bandwidth required to distribute these BGP routes
from the route server to each route server client.
4.2.1.1. View Merging and Decomposition
View merging and decomposition, outlined in [RS-ARCH], describes a
method of optimizing memory and CPU requirements where multiple route
server clients are subject to exactly the same routing policies. In
this situation, multiple Loc-RIB views can be merged into a single
view.
There are several variations of this approach. If the route server
operator has prior knowledge of interconnection relationships between
route server clients, then the operator may configure separate
Loc-RIBs only for route server clients with unique routing policies.
As this approach requires prior knowledge of interconnection
relationships, the route server operator must depend on each client
sharing their interconnection policies either in an internal
provisioning database controlled by the operator or in an external
data store such as an Internet Routing Registry Database.
Conversely, the route server implementation itself may implement
internal view decomposition by creating virtual Loc-RIBs based on a
single in-memory master Loc-RIB, with delta differences for each
prefix subject to different routing policies. This allows a more
fine-grained and flexible approach to the problem of Loc-RIB scaling,
at the expense of requiring a more complex in-memory Loc-RIB
structure.
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Whatever method of view merging and decomposition is chosen on a
route server, pathological edge cases can be created whereby they
will scale no better than fully non-optimized per-client Loc-RIBs.
However, as most route server clients connect to a route server for
the purposes of reducing overhead, rather than implementing complex
per-client routing policies, edge cases tend not to arise in
practice.
4.2.1.2. Destination Splitting
Destination splitting, also described in [RS-ARCH], describes a
method for route server clients to connect to multiple route servers
and to send non-overlapping sets of prefixes to each route server.
As each route server computes the best path for its own set of
prefixes, the quadratic scaling requirement operates on multiple
smaller sets of prefixes. This reduces the overall computational and
memory requirements for managing multiple Loc-RIBs and performing the
best-path calculation on each.
In practice, the route server operator would need all route server
clients to send a full set of BGP routes to each route server. The
route server operator could then selectively filter these prefixes
for each route server by using either BGP Outbound Route Filtering
[RFC5291] or inbound prefix filters configured on client BGP
sessions.
4.2.1.3. NEXT_HOP Resolution
As route servers are usually deployed at IXPs where all connected
routers are on the same Layer 2 broadcast domain, recursive
resolution of the NEXT_HOP attribute is generally not required and
can be replaced by a simple check to ensure that the NEXT_HOP value
for each received BGP route is a network address on the IXP LAN's IP
address range.
4.3. Prefix Leakage Mitigation
Prefix leakage occurs when a BGP client unintentionally distributes
BGP routes to one or more neighboring BGP routers. Prefix leakage of
this form to a route server can cause serious connectivity problems
at an IXP if each route server client is configured to accept all BGP
routes from the route server. It is therefore RECOMMENDED when
deploying route servers that, due to the potential for collateral
damage caused by BGP route leakage, route server operators deploy
prefix leakage mitigation measures in order to prevent unintentional
prefix announcements or else limit the scale of any such leak.
Although not foolproof, per-client inbound prefix limits can restrict
the damage caused by prefix leakage in many cases. Per-client
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inbound prefix filtering on the route server is a more deterministic
and usually more reliable means of preventing prefix leakage but
requires more administrative resources to maintain properly.
If a route server operator implements per-client inbound prefix
filtering, then it is RECOMMENDED that the operator also builds in
mechanisms to automatically compare the Adj-RIB-In received from each
client with the inbound prefix lists configured for those clients.
Naturally, it is the responsibility of the route server client to
ensure that their stated prefix list is compatible with what they
announce to an IXP route server. However, many network operators do
not carefully manage their published routing policies, and it is not
uncommon to see significant variation between the two sets of
prefixes. Route server operator visibility into this discrepancy can
provide significant advantages to both operator and client.
4.4. Route Server Redundancy
As the purpose of an IXP route server implementation is to provide a
reliable reachability brokerage service, it is RECOMMENDED that
exchange operators who implement route server systems provision
multiple route servers on each shared Layer 2 domain. There is no
requirement to use the same BGP implementation or operating system
for each route server on the IXP fabric; however, it is RECOMMENDED
that where an operator provisions more than a single server on the
same shared Layer 2 domain, each route server implementation be
configured equivalently and in such a manner that the path
reachability information from each system is identical.
4.5. AS_PATH Consistency Check
[RFC4271] requires that every BGP speaker that advertises a BGP route
to another external BGP speaker prepends its own AS number as the
last element of the AS_PATH sequence. Therefore, the leftmost AS in
an AS_PATH attribute should be equal to the AS number of the BGP
speaker that sent the BGP route.
As [RFC7947] suggests that route servers should not modify the
AS_PATH attribute, a consistency check on the AS_PATH of a BGP route
received by a route server client would normally fail. It is
therefore RECOMMENDED that route server clients disable the AS_PATH
consistency check towards the route server.
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4.6. Export Routing Policies
Policy filtering is commonly implemented on route servers to provide
prefix distribution control mechanisms for route server clients. A
route server "export" policy is a policy that affects prefixes sent
from the route server to a route server client. Several different
strategies are commonly used for implementing route server export
policies.
4.6.1. BGP Communities
Prefixes sent to the route server are tagged with specific standard
BGP Communities [RFC1997] or Extended Communities [RFC4360]
attributes, based on predefined values agreed between the operator
and all clients. Based on these Communities values, BGP routes may
be propagated to all other clients, a subset of clients, or none.
This mechanism allows route server clients to instruct the route
server to implement per-client export routing policies.
As both standard BGP Communities and Extended Communities values are
restricted to 6 octets or fewer, it is not possible for both the
global and local administrator fields in the BGP Communities value to
fit a 4-octet AS number. Bearing this in mind, the route server
operator SHOULD take care to ensure that the predefined BGP
Communities values mechanism used on their route server is compatible
with 4-octet AS numbers [RFC6793].
4.6.2. Internet Routing Registries
Internet Routing Registry databases (IRRDBs) may be used by route
server operators to construct per-client routing policies. "Routing
Policy Specification Language (RPSL)" [RFC2622] provides a
comprehensive grammar for describing interconnection relationships,
and several toolsets exist that can be used to translate RPSL policy
description into route server configurations.
4.6.3. Client-Accessible Databases
Should the route server operator not wish to use either BGP
Communities or the public IRRDBs for implementing client export
policies, they may implement their own routing policy database system
for managing their clients' requirements. A database of this form
SHOULD allow a route server client operator to update their routing
policy and provide a mechanism for allowing the client to specify
whether they wish to exchange all their prefixes with any other route
server client. Optionally, the implementation may allow a client to
specify unique routing policies for individual prefixes over which
they have routing policy control.
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4.7. Layer 2 Reachability Problems
Layer 2 reachability problems on an IXP can cause serious operational
problems for IXP participants that depend on route servers for
interconnection. Ethernet switch forwarding bugs have occasionally
been observed to cause non-transitive reachability. For example,
given a route server and two IXP participants, A and B, if the two
participants can reach the route server but cannot reach each other,
then traffic between the participants may be dropped until such time
as the Layer 2 forwarding problem is resolved. This situation does
not tend to occur in bilateral interconnection arrangements, as the
routing control path between the two hosts is usually (but not
always, due to IXP inter-switch connectivity load-balancing
algorithms) the same as the data path between them.
Problems of this form can be partially mitigated by using
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) [RFC5881]. However, as this
is a bilateral protocol configured between routers, and as there is
currently no protocol to automatically configure BFD sessions between
route server clients, BFD does not currently provide an optimal means
of handling the problem. Even if automatic BFD session configuration
were possible, practical problems would remain. If two IXP route
server clients were configured to run BFD between each other and the
protocol detected a non-transitive loss of reachability between them,
each of those routers would internally mark the other's prefixes as
unreachable via the BGP path announced by the route server. As the
route server only propagates a single best path to each client, this
could cause either sub-optimal routing or complete connectivity loss
if there were no alternative paths learned from other BGP sessions.
4.8. BGP NEXT_HOP Hijacking
Item 2 in Section 5.1.3 of [RFC4271] allows EBGP speakers to change
the NEXT_HOP address of a received BGP route to be a different
Internet address on the same subnet. This is the mechanism that
allows route servers to operate on a shared Layer 2 IXP network.
However, the mechanism can be abused by route server clients to
redirect traffic for their prefixes to other IXP participant routers.
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____
/ \
| AS99 |
\____/
/ \
/ \
__/ \__
/ \ / \
..| AS1 |..| AS2 |..
: \___/ \___/ :
: \ / :
: \ / :
: \__/ :
: IXP / \ :
: | RS | :
: \____/ :
: :
....................
Figure 3: BGP NEXT_HOP Hijacking Using a Route Server
For example, in Figure 3, if AS1 and AS2 both announce BGP routes for
AS99 to the route server, AS1 could set the NEXT_HOP address for
AS99's routes to be the address of AS2's router, thereby diverting
traffic for AS99 via AS2. This may override the routing policies of
AS99 and AS2.
Worse still, if the route server operator does not use inbound prefix
filtering, AS1 could announce any arbitrary prefix to the route
server with a NEXT_HOP address of any other IXP participant. This
could be used as a denial-of-service mechanism against either the
users of the address space being announced by illicitly diverting
their traffic or the other IXP participant by overloading their
network with traffic that would not normally be sent there.
This problem is not specific to route servers, and it can also be
implemented using bilateral BGP sessions. However, the potential
damage is amplified by route servers because a single BGP session can
be used to affect many networks simultaneously.
Because route server clients cannot easily implement next-hop policy
checks against route server BGP sessions, route server operators
SHOULD check that the BGP NEXT_HOP attribute for BGP routes received
from a route server client matches the interface address of the
client. If the route server receives a BGP route where these
addresses are different and where the announcing route server client
is in a different AS to the route server client that uses the next-
hop address, the BGP route SHOULD be dropped. Permitting next-hop
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rewriting for the same AS allows an organization with multiple
connections into an IXP configured with different IP addresses to
direct traffic off the IXP infrastructure through any of their
connections for traffic engineering or other purposes.
4.9. BGP Operations and Security
BGP route servers SHOULD be configured and operated in compliance
with [RFC7454] with the exception of Section 11, "BGP Community
Scrubbing", which may not necessarily apply on a route server,
depending on the route server operator policy.
5. Security Considerations
On route server installations that do not employ path-hiding
mitigation techniques, the path-hiding problem outlined in
Section 4.1 could be used by an IXP participant to prevent the route
server from sending any BGP routes for a particular prefix to other
route server clients, even if there was a valid path to that
destination via another route server client.
If the route server operator does not implement prefix leakage
mitigation as described in Section 4.3, it is trivial for route
server clients to implement denial-of-service attacks against
arbitrary Internet networks by leaking BGP routes to a route server.
Route server installations SHOULD be secured against BGP NEXT_HOP
hijacking, as described in Section 4.8.
6. References
6.1. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.
[RFC7947] Jasinska, E., Hilliard, N., Raszuk, R., and N. Bakker,
"Internet Exchange BGP Route Server", RFC 7947,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7947, September 2016,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7947>.
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6.2. Informative References
[RFC1997] Chandra, R., Traina, P., and T. Li, "BGP Communities
Attribute", RFC 1997, DOI 10.17487/RFC1997, August 1996,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1997>.
[RFC2622] Alaettinoglu, C., Villamizar, C., Gerich, E., Kessens, D.,
Meyer, D., Bates, T., Karrenberg, D., and M. Terpstra,
"Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL)", RFC 2622,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2622, June 1999,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2622>.
[RFC4271] Rekhter, Y., Ed., Li, T., Ed., and S. Hares, Ed., "A
Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)", RFC 4271,
DOI 10.17487/RFC4271, January 2006,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4271>.
[RFC4360] Sangli, S., Tappan, D., and Y. Rekhter, "BGP Extended
Communities Attribute", RFC 4360, DOI 10.17487/RFC4360,
February 2006, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4360>.
[RFC4456] Bates, T., Chen, E., and R. Chandra, "BGP Route
Reflection: An Alternative to Full Mesh Internal BGP
(IBGP)", RFC 4456, DOI 10.17487/RFC4456, April 2006,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4456>.
[RFC5291] Chen, E. and Y. Rekhter, "Outbound Route Filtering
Capability for BGP-4", RFC 5291, DOI 10.17487/RFC5291,
August 2008, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5291>.
[RFC5881] Katz, D. and D. Ward, "Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
(BFD) for IPv4 and IPv6 (Single Hop)", RFC 5881,
DOI 10.17487/RFC5881, June 2010,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5881>.
[RFC6793] Vohra, Q. and E. Chen, "BGP Support for Four-Octet
Autonomous System (AS) Number Space", RFC 6793,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6793, December 2012,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6793>.
[RFC7454] Durand, J., Pepelnjak, I., and G. Doering, "BGP Operations
and Security", BCP 194, RFC 7454, DOI 10.17487/RFC7454,
February 2015, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7454>.
[RS-ARCH] Govindan, R., Alaettinoglu, C., Varadhan, K., and D.
Estrin, "A Route Server Architecture for Inter-Domain
Routing", 1995,
<http://www.cs.usc.edu/assets/003/83191.pdf>.
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Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank Chris Hall, Ryan Bickhart, Steven
Bakker, and Eduardo Ascenco Reis for their valuable input.
Authors' Addresses
Nick Hilliard
INEX
4027 Kingswood Road
Dublin 24
Ireland
Email: nick@inex.ie
Elisa Jasinska
BigWave IT
ul. Skawinska 27/7
Krakow, MP 31-066
Poland
Email: elisa@bigwaveit.org
Robert Raszuk
Bloomberg LP
731 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10022
United States of America
Email: robert@raszuk.net
Niels Bakker
Akamai Technologies B.V.
Kingsfordweg 151
Amsterdam 1043 GR
Netherlands
Email: nbakker@akamai.com
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