The IESG has approved the following document: - 'An Architecture for the Interface to the Routing System' (draft-ietf-i2rs-architecture-15.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Interface to the Routing System Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Alvaro Retana, Alia Atlas and Deborah Brungard. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-i2rs-architecture/ Technical Summary This document describes the IETF architecture for a standard, programmatic interface for state transfer in and out of the Internet routing system. It describes the basic architecture, the components, and their interfaces with particular focus on those to be standardized as part of the Interface to Routing System (I2RS). Working Group Summary There has been significant debate and discussion relating to template, multi-head control, security and consensus was made on these topics. Document Quality There was active discussion in the WG and the document passed through a number of iterations reflecting that. This document has been well reviewed and updated to reflect comments received in WG last call. Personnel Who is the Document Shepherd for this document? Mach Chen Who is the Responsible Area Director? Deborah Brungard