The IESG has received a request from the Global Routing Operations WG (grow) to consider the following document: - 'Mitigating Negative Impact of Maintenance through BGP Session Culling' <draft-ietf-grow-bgp-session-culling-04.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 2017-09-25. 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 outlines an approach to mitigate negative impact on networks resulting from maintenance activities. It includes guidance for both IP networks and Internet Exchange Points (IXPs). The approach is to ensure BGP-4 sessions affected by the maintenance are forcefully torn down before the actual maintenance activities commence. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-grow-bgp-session-culling/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-grow-bgp-session-culling/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: rfc4271: A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) (Draft Standard - IETF stream)
