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Notes:
The BGP community attribute is defined in :
Chandra, R., Traina, P., and T. Li, "BGP Communities Attribute", RFC 1997, August 1996.
Its utilization was first described in :
E. Chen, and T. Bates, "An Application of the BGP Community Attribute
in Multi-home Routing", RFC 1998, August 1996.
An extended community attribute is defined in :
S. Sangli, D. Tappan, Y. Rekhter, "BGP Extended Communities
Attribute", Work in Progress, <draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ext-
communities-03.txt>, March 2002.
A survey of the utilization of the community attribute may be found in :
Bruno Quoitin and Olivier Bonaventure , A survey of the utilization of the BGP community attribute, Feb 2002, Technical Report, http://www.infonet.fundp.ac.be/doc/tr/Infonet-TR-2002-02.html
An even more extended community attribute has recently been proposed, but it still under discussion
A. Lange, Flexible BGP Communities, Internet draft, draft-lange-flexible-bgp-communities-00.txt, work in progress, Dec. 2002