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Routing Area IDR Working Group RFC Request for Comments I-D Internet-Draft IANA This document updates several BGP Extended Community registries in order to replace the "Experimental Use" registration procedure in some entries, since their use is clearly not experimental and thus misleading. This document updates RFC7153 and RFC8955.

Introduction reorganizes the IANA registries for the type values and sub-type values of the BGP Extended Communities attribute. As a result the IANA maintained registry entitled "BGP Transitive Extended Community Types" includes a range of Type Values (0x80-0x8F) reserved for Experimental Use. Out of this experimental range the types 0x80, 0x81, 0x82 have been used in and (both documents rendered Obsolete by ). The primary use for those types and sub-type registries is non experimental. of this document requests the registry cleanup to reflect the actual use of those code-points (removing "Experimental Use" from the sub-type registry names) and changes the registration procedure of the types 0x80, 0x81, 0x82 to use the First Come First Served policy and thus updates and .

IANA Considerations

Registry: BGP Transitive Extended Community Types IANA maintains a registry entitled "BGP Transitive Extended Community Types". IANA is requested to add [this document] to the Reference of this registry, update the Name of the Type Values according to and append a reference to [this document] to the existing references. Registry: BGP Transitive Extended Community Types

Type Value	Name	Reference
0x80	Generic Transitive Extended Community (Sub-Types are defined in the "Generic Transitive Extended Community Sub-Types" registry)	[add this document]
0x81	Generic Transitive Extended Community Part 2 (Sub-Types are defined in the "Generic Transitive Extended Community Part 2 Sub-Types" registry)	[add this document]
0x82	Generic Transitive Extended Community Part 3 (Sub-Types are defined in the "Generic Transitive Extended Community Part 3 Sub-Types" registry)	[add this document]

Furthermore IANA is requested to change the registration procedures of this registry of Type Values 0x80 thru 0x82 to First Come First Served . The resulting Registration Procedures should read as in . Registration Procedures: BGP Transitive Extended Community Types

Range	Registration Procedures
0x00-0x3f	First Come First Served
0x80-0x82	First Come First Served (see [this document])
0x83-0x8f	Reserved for Experimental Use (see [RFC3692])
0x90-0xbf	Standards Action

Registry: Generic Transitive Experimental Use Extended Community Sub-Types IANA maintains a registry entitled "Generic Transitive Experimental Use Extended Community Sub-Types". IANA is requested to add [this document] to the Reference of this registry and update the registry title to:

• "Generic Transitive Extended Community Sub-Types"

Registry: Generic Transitive Experimental Use Extended Community Part 2 Sub-Types IANA maintains a registry entitled "Generic Transitive Experimental Use Extended Community Part 2 Sub-Types". IANA is requested to add [this document] to the Reference of this registry and update the registry title to:

• "Generic Transitive Extended Community Part 2 Sub-Types"

Registry: Generic Transitive Experimental Use Extended Community Part 3 Sub-Types IANA maintains a registry entitled "Generic Transitive Experimental Use Extended Community Part 3 Sub-Types". IANA is requested to add [this document] to the Reference of this registry and update the registry title to:

• "Generic Transitive Extended Community Part 3 Sub-Types"

Security Considerations There are no direct security considerations arising from this document.

Acknowledgements The author wants to thank Alvaro Retana who pointed out, that the IANA registry contains misleading entries in this context.

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