The IESG has received a request from the Global Routing Operations WG (grow) to consider the following document: - 'Graceful BGP session shutdown' <draft-ietf-grow-bgp-gshut-13.txt> as Proposed Standard This is a second IETF Last Call. The document had an initial LC as an Informational document, but the IESG felt it was more appropriate to be Standards Track. As the Last Call time will run into the end of the year holiday period, we are requesting a 4-week Last Call. 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 2018-01-11. 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 draft standardizes a new well-known BGP community GRACEFUL_SHUTDOWN to signal the graceful shutdown of paths. This draft also describes operational procedures which use this community to reduce the amount of traffic lost when BGP peering sessions are about to be shut down deliberately, e.g. for planned maintenance. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-grow-bgp-gshut/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-grow-bgp-gshut/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: rfc6198: Requirements for the Graceful Shutdown of BGP Sessions (Informational - IETF stream)
