{
  "draft": "draft-ietf-grow-blackholing-03",
  "doc_id": "RFC7999",
  "title": "BLACKHOLE Community",
  "authors": [
    "T. King",
    "C. Dietzel",
    "J. Snijders",
    "G. Doering",
    "G. Hankins"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "9",
  "pub_status": "INFORMATIONAL",
  "status": "INFORMATIONAL",
  "source": "Global Routing Operations",
  "abstract": "This document describes the use of a well-known Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) community for destination-based blackholing in IP networks.  This well-known advisory transitive BGP community named \"BLACKHOLE\" allows an origin Autonomous System (AS) to specify that a neighboring network should discard any traffic destined towards the tagged IP prefix.",
  "pub_date": "October 2016",
  "keywords": [
    "well-known",
    "well known",
    "RTBH",
    "Remotely Triggered Blackholing"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC7999",
  "errata_url": null
}