Semantic information for labels in border gateway protocol

A method, comprising:

• receiving, by a device, a plurality of border gateway protocol labels from one or more other devices,
• a first border gateway protocol label, of the plurality of border gateway protocol labels, being generated by a particular device of the one or more other devices,
• the first border gateway protocol label being associated with a particular forwarding semantic identified by a particular label descriptor attribute,
• the particular forwarding semantic being stored in a forwarding table of the particular device;
• determining, by the device, the particular forwarding semantic based on the particular label descriptor attribute;
• determining, by the device, that routing traffic in accordance with the first border gateway protocol label is associated with at least one of:
• causing the traffic to be routed faster than with a second border gateway protocol label, or
• causing the traffic to be routed with less packet loss than with the second border gateway protocol label;
• selecting, by the device, the first border gateway protocol label for routing network traffic toward a network device associated with the first border gateway protocol label based on the particular forwarding semantic and based on determining that routing the traffic in accordance with the first border gateway protocol label is associated with at least one of:
• causing the traffic to be routed faster than with the second border gateway protocol label, or
• causing the traffic to be routed with less packet loss than with the second border gateway protocol label;
• and
• causing, by the device, the network traffic to be routed toward the network device based on the first border gateway protocol label and after selecting the first border gateway protocol label.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions, the instructions comprising:

• one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a device, cause the one or more processors to:
• receive a set of border gateway protocol labels via a set of corresponding border gateway protocol messages,
• a first border gateway protocol label, of the set of border gateway protocol labels, being associated with a label descriptor attribute,
• the label descriptor attribute being associated with providing information regarding a forwarding semantic associated with the first border gateway protocol label;
• determine that routing traffic in accordance with the first border gateway protocol label is associated with at least one of:
• causing the traffic to be routed faster than with a second border gateway protocol label, or
• causing the traffic to be routed with less packet loss than with the second border gateway protocol label;
• select the first border gateway protocol label for routing network traffic toward a network device associated with the first border gateway protocol label based on the label descriptor attribute and based on determining that routing the traffic in accordance with the first border gateway protocol label is associated with at least one of:
• causing the traffic to be routed faster than with the second border gateway protocol label, or
• causing the traffic to be routed with less packet loss than with the second border gateway protocol label;
• and
• route the network traffic toward the network device based on the first border gateway protocol label and after selecting the first border gateway protocol label.