The IESG has received a request from the Secure Inter-Domain Routing WG (sidr) to consider the following document: - 'BGPsec Operational Considerations' <draft-ietf-sidr-bgpsec-ops-12.txt> as Best Current Practice The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2016-12-21. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract Deployment of the BGPsec architecture and protocols has many operational considerations. This document attempts to collect and present the most critical and universal. It is expected to evolve as BGPsec is formalized and initially deployed. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sidr-bgpsec-ops/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sidr-bgpsec-ops/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D. The document contains these normative downward references. See RFC 3967 for additional information: rfc6811: BGP Prefix Origin Validation (Proposed Standard - IETF stream) draft-ietf-sidr-bgpsec-protocol: BGPsec Protocol Specification (None - IETF stream) rfc6493: The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Ghostbusters Record (Proposed Standard - IETF stream) Note that some of these references may already be listed in the acceptable Downref Registry.