draft-wang-idr-bgp-upa
BGP-based Unreachable Prefix Advertisement for Inter-Domain Fast Reroute
This document specifies a mechanism for advertising unreachable
prefixes across Autonomous Systems using BGP. The mechanism enables
fast convergence in VPN services when backbone source nodes become
unreachable, by allowing Unreachable Prefix Advertisement (UPA)
routes propagated through BGP across AS boundaries. This solution
extends the IGP-based UPA mechanism defined in RFC9929 to inter-
domain scenarios, ensuring remote PEs can promptly detect and react
to failures in source domains. The route is not used for packet
forwarding but solely for BGP next-hop reachability resolution,
enabling fast failover of BGP VPN routes.