I support WG adoption. Look forward to more discussion surrounding this
draft.


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Bryton Herdes
Principal Network Engineer
AS13335 - Cloudflare

On Tue, Sep 1, 2026 at 6:51 PM Paolo Lucente via Datatracker <
[email protected]> wrote:

> This message starts a grow WG Call for Adoption of:
> draft-spaghetti-grow-downgrade-bgp-community-00
>
> This Working Group Call for Adoption ends on 2026-09-18
>
> Abstract:
>    This document outlines a method to mitigate Denial of Service (DoS)
>    attacks by using a well-known BGP community named "DOWNGRADE" as
>    signal to neighboring networks to treat traffic destined towards
>    "DOWNGRADE" tagged IP prefixes with low precedence.  The "downgrade"
>    strategy offers an appealing alternative to Remote Triggered
>    Blackhole (RTBH) filtering, because RTBH filtering completes the DoS
>    attack and hampers the defender's ability to monitor whether the
>    attack is still ongoing.
>
> Please reply to this message and indicate whether or not you support
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