The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP ' <draft-ietf-idr-restart-13.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Inter-Domain Routing Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Bill Fenner and Ross Callon. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idr-restart-13.txt Technical Summary This document proposes a mechanism for BGP that would help minimize the negative effects on routing caused by BGP restart. An End-of-RIB marker is specified and can be used to convey routing convergence information. A new BGP capability, termed "Graceful Restart Capability", is defined which would allow a BGP speaker to express its ability to preserve forwarding state during BGP restart. Finally, procedures are outlined for temporarily retaining routing information across a TCP transport reset. The mechanisms described in this document are applicable to all routers, both those with the ability to preserve forwarding state during BGP restart and those without (although the latter need to implement only a subset of the mechanisms described in this document). Working Group Summary The WG had consensus to move this document forward. There were comments during IETF Last Call, and the document was updated based on these comments. Protocol Quality Bill Fenner reviewed this spec for the IESG. The implementation report, listing 7 implementations, is available at http://www.ietf.org/IESG/Implementations/implement_draft-ietf-idr-bgp-gr-survey-01.txt _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
