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INFORMATIONAL

Authors:

K. Sriram
D. Montgomery
D. McPherson
E. Osterweil
B. Dickson

Stream:

IETF

Source:

grow (ops)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7908

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Abstract

A systemic vulnerability of the Border Gateway Protocol routingsystem, known as "route leaks", has received significant attention inrecent years. Frequent incidents that result in significantdisruptions to Internet routing are labeled route leaks, but to datea common definition of the term has been lacking. This documentprovides a working definition of route leaks while keeping in mindthe real occurrences that have received significant attention.Further, this document attempts to enumerate (though notexhaustively) different types of route leaks based on observed eventson the Internet. The aim is to provide a taxonomy that coversseveral forms of route leaks that have been observed and are ofconcern to the Internet user community as well as the networkoperator community.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.