The Large BGP Communities technical specification was updated and is now at version -01. The following changes were incorporated, a good overview with the previous version can be read here: rfcdiff draft-ietf-idr-large-community-01.

Changelog

• Reworded abstract avoid citation (Thanks John Heasley, Tom Scholl, Tom Petch)
• Add early IANA Allocation codepoint (Thanks Susan Hares & John Scudder)
• Reserve 0, AS-MAX, AS4-MAX ranges (Thanks Jeff, Brian, John Heasley)
• Use “communities” vs “community” in a consistent manner (thanks Nick)
• Clarification that Global Administrator should usually be the ASN
• Removed EBNF in favor of textual guidelines
• Remove hints on PDU transmission, this is implied well enough by the ASCII art (Nick)
• Remove most of the text about Global Administrator usage, this is better handled in the “Usage” document which will go to GROW
• Clarify duplicate handling
• Clarify re-ordering
• Reduce routing semantics to a single sentence
• Reword security section, add reference to rfc7454
• Move note about ‘invalid’ ASNs into the error handling section
• Worksmithing in Textual Representation and Aggregation sections (Jakob, Nick)
• Use documentation ASN 64496 as example instead of reserved 65000 (Nick)
• Spelling/grammar/style changes