The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Notification Message support for BGP Graceful Restart' (draft-ietf-idr-bgp-gr-notification-16.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Inter-Domain Routing Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Alvaro Retana, Martin Vigoureux and Deborah Brungard. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-bgp-gr-notification/ Technical Summary The BGP Graceful Restart mechanism defined in RFC 4724 limits the usage of BGP Graceful Restart to BGP protocol messages other than a BGP NOTIFICATION message. This document updates RFC 4724 by defining an extension that permits the Graceful Restart procedures to be performed when the BGP speaker receives a BGP NOTIFICATION Message or the Hold Time expires. This document also defines a new BGP NOTIFICATION Cease Error subcode whose effect is to request a full session restart instead of a Graceful Restart. Working Group Summary IDR has reviewed and discussed this document over 3 years (2014-2017). WG has reached consensus after several revisions. Document Quality There are two implementations of this document reported. Personnel Document Shepherd: Jie Dong Responsible Area Director: Alvaro Retana
