RFC 1786 Representing IP Routing Policies in a RR March 1995 Table of Contents 1. Introduction ................................................ 3 2. Organization of this Document ............................... 3 3. General Representation of Policy Information ............... 5 4. The Routing Registry and the RIPE Database .................. 11 5. The Route Object ............................................ 16 6. The Autonomous System Object ................................ 26 7. AS Macros ................................................... 36 8. The Community Object ........................................ 38 9. Representation of Routing Policies .......................... 41 10. Future Extensions .......................................... 50 11. References ................................................. 51 12. Security Considerations .................................... 52 13. Authors' Addresses ......................................... 53 Appendix A - Syntax for the "aut-num" object ................... 55 Appendix B - Syntax for the "community" object ................. 68 Appendix C - Syntax for the "as-macro" object .................. 72 Appendix D - Syntax for the "route" object ..................... 76 Appendix E - List of reserved words ............................ 80 Appendix F - Motivations for RIPE-81++ ......................... 81 Appendix G - Transition strategy ............................... 83 Bates, et al.