rfc-8670

BGP Prefix Segment in Large-Scale Data Centers

C. Filsfils (Editor), S. Previdi, G. Dawra, E. Aries, P. Lapukhov

date2019-12 streamIETF areartg wgspring statusINFORMATIONAL pages18 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8670 doi10.17487/RFC8670

This document describes the motivation for, and benefits of, applying Segment Routing (SR) in BGP-based large-scale data centers. It describes the design to deploy SR in those data centers for both the MPLS and IPv6 data planes.