The IESG has approved the following document: - 'BGP Administrative Shutdown Communication' (draft-ietf-idr-shutdown-10.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Inter-Domain Routing 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-idr-shutdown/ Technical Summary This document enhances the BGP Cease NOTIFICATION message "Administrative Shutdown" and "Administrative Reset" sub-codes for operators to transmit a short free form message to describe why a BGP session was shutdown or reset. This document updates RFC 4486. Working Group Summary WG consensus call was quiet compared to the adoption call. The final discussion has operators and implementers agreeing to this work. Document Quality There are at least 7 Open Source implementations. Personnel Document Shepherd: Susan Hares AD: Alvaro Retana
