A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Global Routing Operations Working Group of the IETF. Title : Operational Requirements for Enhanced Error Handling Behaviour in BGP-4 Author(s) : Rob Shakir Filename : draft-ietf-grow-ops-reqs-for-bgp-error-handling-05.txt Pages : 30 Date : 2012-07-30 Abstract: BGP-4 is utilised as a key intra- and inter-Autonomous System routing protocol in modern IP networks. The failure modes as defined by the original protocol standards are based on a number of assumptions around the impact of session failure. Numerous incidents both in the global Internet routing table and within Service Provider networks have been caused by strict handling of a single invalid UPDATE message causing large-scale failures in one or more Autonomous Systems. This memo describes the current use of BGP-4 within Service Provider networks, and outlines a set of requirements for further work to enhance the mechanisms available to a BGP-4 implementation when erroneous data is detected. Whilst this document does not provide specification of any standard, it is intended as an overview of a set of enhancements to BGP-4 to improve the protocol's robustness to suit its current deployment. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-grow-ops-reqs-for-bgp-error-handling There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-grow-ops-reqs-for-bgp-error-handling-05 A diff from previous version is available at: http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-grow-ops-reqs-for-bgp-error-handling-05 Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt