The IESG has approved the following document: - 'BGP Monitoring Protocol' (draft-ietf-grow-bmp-17.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Global Routing Operations Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Benoit Claise and Joel Jaeggli. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-grow-bmp/ Technical Summary This document defines a protocol, BMP, that can be used to monitor BGP sessions. BMP is intended to provide a convenient interface for obtaining route views. Prior to introduction of BMP, screen-scraping was the most commonly-used approach to obtaining such views. The design goals are to keep BMP simple, useful, easily implemented, and minimally service-affecting. BMP is not suitable for use as a routing protocol. The BMP protocol provides access to the Adj-RIB-In of a peer on an ongoing basis and a periodic dump of certain statistics the monitoring station can use for further analysis. From a high level, BMP can be thought of as the result of multiplexing together the messages received on the various monitored BGP sessions. Working Group Summary The BMP protocol has been a GROW document for quite sometime. The length of time has allowed the document to have multiple implementations completed, along with incorporating working group feedback into the spec and polishing the document. There is strong support in the working group and the community/industry for the protocol. The work has been relatively smooth, with active positive contribution from the community. Document Quality Because of the strong interest in the protocol, the document has been actively reviewed by numerious people. With the age of the document at least two implementations have been completed in router software, along with software for the monitoring station. Personnel Document Shepherd : Peter Schoenmaker <pds@lugs.com> Responsible AD : Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
