The IESG has received a request from the Inter-Domain Routing WG (idr) to consider the following document: - 'Codification of AS 0 processing.' <draft-ietf-idr-as0-05.txt> as Proposed Standard 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 2012-08-22. 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 updates RFC 4271 and proscribes the use of AS 0 in BGP OPEN and AS_PATH / AS4_PATH BGP attribute. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-as0/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-as0/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.