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Re: BGP community attribute taxonomy

  • From: Benoit Donnet
  • Date: Tue Dec 04 04:56:19 2007

Dear Nanog community,

We would like to thank you for helping us in our efforts on documenting BGP communities.

As researchers, we are now in the process of writing a paper on our work on BGP communities.

We plan to submit this paper to ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review for the April issue. This is an editorial paper (max. 4 pages).

You can find a preprint of the paper at the following URL: http:// inl.info.ucl.ac.be/communities or directly at http:// inl.info.ucl.ac.be/system/files/communities.pdf

Any comments on the paper is welcome.

Thank you very much.

Keep on Rockin'

Benoit & Olivier

Le 15-nov.-07 à 11:05, Benoit Donnet a écrit :


Dear Nanog community,

During the past years, we have seen an increasing usage of the BGP community attribute. For instance, in a recent BGP table dump from routeviews, 99% of the routes stored by the router carries BGP communities.

In this context, we are currently working on a BGP community taxonomy, i.e., we want to classify and document communities according to their usage. We describe our taxonomy on the following url: http://inl.info.ucl.ac.be/communities

Based on this taxonomy, we tried to collect as much as possible information on BGP communities. This was a daunting task as we mainly relied on public database, such as whois server and ISP web sites.

Our current database of classified BGP communities currently contains more than 12,000 entries.

When running our database and taxonomy on recent BGP table dumps from RouteViews and RIPE (last dump from September 2007), we were only able to classify, on average, 20% of the encountered communities.

Based on this result, we ranked the unclassified BGP communities. Here is the top 10 of most seen ASes using uncommented communities:
AS19151
AS3549
AS3549
AS2914
AS7473
AS286
AS3292
AS13237
AS6667
AS34225

You can find the top 100 on the following url: http:// www.info.ucl.ac.be/~donnet/communities.html It gives the AS number as well as, for each AS, the various unclassified communities and their total frequency (i.e., the number of times the AS with unrecognized communities is encountered in table dumps).

If you have any documentation regarding these communities, it would be very helpful if you can send us back this information. The easiest way for you is probably to reply to this email and attach the information (text, PDF, doc file, ...).

When our database will be enough representative of the used BGP communities, we will made it freely available. We will also propose a way for updating (adding or removing) BGP communities information in our database.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards.

Dr. Benoit Donnet & Prof. Olivier Bonaventure

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Dr. Benoit Donnet
Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
Faculté des Sciences Appliquées - Département d'Ingénierie Informatique (INGI)
Place Sainte Barbe, 2
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
Phone: +32 10 47 87 18
Home page: http://inl.info.ucl.ac.be/donnet




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Dr. Benoit Donnet
Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
Faculté des Sciences Appliquées - Département d'Ingénierie Informatique (INGI)
Place Sainte Barbe, 2
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
Phone: +32 10 47 87 18
Home page: http://inl.info.ucl.ac.be/donnet