Light, camera, actions
Fabricio Mazzola, Pedro de Botelho Marcos, Marinho Pilla Barcellos · 2022
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) communities, an optional message attribute, allow network operators to tag BGP announcements and act on routing decisions. Although widely used, it is so far unclear how prevalent the different types of communities are and the degree to which the different traffic engineering actions have been used. There are two major reasons for this gap: few community values have been standardised and the limited visibility at route collectors.