Policy

This is the route filtering algorithm for customers and peers that have explicit filtering:

1. Attempt to find an as-set to use for this network.

1.1 We don't use AS-SET by default, if you need it, please ask for it.

2. Collect the received routes for all BGP sessions with this ASN. This details both accepted and filtered routes.

3. For each route, perform the following rejection tests:

3.1 Reject default routes 0.0.0.0/0 and ::/0.

3.2 Reject AS paths that use BGP AS_SET notation (i.e. {1} or {1 2}, etc). See draft-ietf-idr-deprecate-as-set-confed-set.

3.3 Reject prefix lengths less than minimum and greater than maximum. For IPv4 this is 8 and 24. For IPv6 this is 16 and 48.

3.4 Reject bogons (RFC1918, documentation prefix, etc).

3.5 Reject exchange prefixes for all exchanges Zero Distance is connected to.

3.6 Reject AS paths that exceed 50 hops in length. Excessive BGP AS Path Prepending is a Self-Inflicted Vulnerability.

3.7 Reject AS paths that use unallocated 32-bit ASNs between 1000000 and 4199999999. https://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers/as-numbers.xhtml

3.8 Reject AS paths that use AS 23456. AS 23456 should not be encountered in the AS paths of BGP speakers that support 32-bit ASNs.

3.9 Reject AS paths that use AS 0. As per RFC 7606, "A BGP speaker MUST NOT originate or propagate a route with an AS number of zero".

3.10 Reject routes that have RPKI status INVALID_ASN or INVALID_LENGTH based on the origin AS and prefix.

4. For each route, perform the following acceptance tests:

4.1 If the origin is the neighbor AS, accept routes that have RPKI status VALID based on the origin AS and prefix.

4.2 If the prefix is an announced downstream route that is a subnet of an accepted originated prefix that was accepted due to either RPKI or an RIR handle match, accept the prefix.

4.3 If RIR handles match for the prefix and the peer AS, accept the prefix.

4.4 If this prefix exactly matches a prefix allowed by the IRR policy of this peer, accept the prefix.

4.5 If the first AS in the path matches the peer and path is two hops long and the origin AS is in the expanded as-set for the peer AS and either the RPKI status is VALID or there is an RIR handle match for the origin AS and the prefix, accept the prefix.

5. Reject all prefixes not explicitly accepted