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 RFC 8642
 Title:      Policy Behavior for Well-Known BGP  Communities 
 Author:     J. Borkenhagen, 
             R. Bush,
             R. Bonica, 
             S. Bayraktar
 Status:     Standards Track
 Stream:     IETF
 Date:       August 2019
 Pages:      7
 Characters: 13429
 Updates:    RFC 1997
 I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-grow-wkc-behavior-08.txt
 URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8642
 DOI:        10.17487/RFC8642

Well-known BGP communities are manipulated differently across various current implementations, resulting in difficulties for operators. Network operators should deploy consistent community handling across their networks while taking the inconsistent behaviors from the various BGP implementations into consideration. This document recommends specific actions to limit future inconsistency: namely, BGP implementors must not create further inconsistencies from this point forward. These behavioral changes, though subtle, actually update RFC 1997.

 RFC 8635
 Title:      Router Keying for BGPsec 
 Author:     R. Bush,
             S. Turner,
             K. Patel
 Status:     Standards Track
 Stream:     IETF
 Date:       August 2019
 I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-sidrops-rtr-keying-06.txt
 URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8635
 DOI:        10.17487/RFC8635

BGPsec-speaking routers are provisioned with private keys in order to sign BGPsec announcements. The corresponding public keys are published in the Global Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI), enabling verification of BGPsec messages. This document describes two methods of generating the public-private key pairs: router-driven and operator-driven.