The IESG has received a request from the Inter-Domain Routing WG (idr) to consider the following document: - 'BGP Administrative Shutdown Communication' <draft-ietf-idr-shutdown-08.txt> as Proposed Standard 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 2017-05-19. 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 This document enhances the BGP Cease NOTIFICATION message "Administrative Shutdown" and "Administrative Reset" subcodes for operators to transmit a short freeform message to describe why a BGP session was shutdown or reset. This document updates RFC 4486. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-shutdown/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-shutdown/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
