RFC Information

ExaBGP MAY violate some of the SHALL/MUST requirement of some RFC (most likely by mistake - like most BGP implementations).

RFC (fully or mostly fully) implemented

• RFC 1997 - BGP Communities Attribute
• RFC 2385 - Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signature (for OSes supporting TCP_MD5SIG)
• RFC 2545 - Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing
• RFC 2918 - Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
• RFC 3107 - Carrying Label Information in BGP-4
• RFC 3765 - NOPEER Community for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Route Scope Control
• RFC 4271 - A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4), Obsoletes: 1771
• RFC 4360 - BGP Extended Communities Attribute
• RFC 4364 - Constrained Route Distribution for BGP/MPLS IP VPNs
• RFC 4456 - BGP Route Reflection: An Alternative to Full Mesh Internal BGP (IBGP)
• RFC 4659 - BGP-MPLS IP Virtual Private Network (VPN) Extension for IPv6 VPN
• RFC 4724 - Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP
• RFC 4760 - Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4, Obsoletes: 2858
• RFC 4762 - Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) Using Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) Signaling
• RFC 4893 - BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number Space
• RFC 5492 - Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4, Obsoletes 3392,2842
• RFC 5492 - Advertising IPv4 Network Layer Reachability Information with an IPv6 Next Hop, Obsoletes 3392,2842
• RFC 5396 - Textual Representation of Autonomous System (AS) Numbers
• RFC 5492 - Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
• RFC 5575 - Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules
• RFC 6286 - Autonomous-System-Wide Unique BGP Identifier for BGP-4
• RFC 6608 - Subcodes for BGP Finite State Machine Error
• RFC 7311 - The Accumulated IGP Metric Attribute for BGP
• RFC 7313 - Enhanced Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
• RFC 7606 - Revised Error Handling for BGP UPDATE Messages
• RFC 7752 - North-Bound Distribution of Link-State and Traffic Engineering (TE) Information Using BGP (receive only)
• RFC 7674 - Support redirect traffic to a VRF encoded as 4-octet AS
• RFC 7911 - Advertisement of Multiple Paths in BGP
• RFC 7999 - BLACKHOLE Community
• RFC 8092 - BGP Large Communities Attribute
• draft-raszuk-idr-flow-spec-v6-03 - Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules for IPv6
• draft-ietf-idr-bgp-multisession-07 - Multisession BGP
• draft-ietf-idr-flowspec-redirect-ip-00 - BGP Flow-Spec Extended Community for Traffic Redirect to IP Next Hop
• draft-ietf-idr-shutdown-09 - BGP Administrative Shutdown Communication
• draft-ietf-idr-bgp-prefix-sid-05 - Segment Routing Prefix SID extensions for BGP
• draft-dawra-idr-srv6-vpn-04 - BGP Signaling for SRv6 based Services. (Prefix-SID Type-4)
• draft-dawra-idr-srv6-vpn-05 - BGP Signaling for SRv6 based Services. (Prefix-SID Type-5)
• draft-ietf-idr-link-bandwidth-06 - BGP Link Bandwidth Extended Community
• draft-ietf-idr-flowspec-redirect-ip-02 - BGP Flow-Spec Redirect to IP Action
• draft-ietf-idr-bgp-extended-messages-24 - Extended Message support for BGP
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-idr-link-bandwidth-07 - BGP Link Bandwidth Extended Community

RFC partially implemented

• draft-frs-bgp-operational-message-00 - BGP OPERATIONAL Message

The following BG4 RFC look like reading material

• MRT helper programs
• RFC 6396 - Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit (MRT) - Routing Information Export Format
• RFC 3065 Autonomous System Confederations for BGP
• RFC 5549 Advertising IPv4 Network Layer Reachability Information with an IPv6 Next Hop
• draft-ietf-idr-ix-bgp-route-server-03 Internet Exchange Route Server

All current BGP RFC and drafts

• [https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/idr/]