The IESG has received a request from the Keying and Authentication for Routing Protocols WG (karp) to consider the following document: - 'Analysis of BGP, LDP, PCEP and MSDP Issues According to KARP Design Guide' <draft-ietf-karp-routing-tcp-analysis-05.txt> as Informational RFC 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 2012-11-19. 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 analyzes Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) [RFC4271], Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) [RFC5036], Path Computation Element Protocol (PCEP) [RFC5440] and Multicast Source Distribution Protocol (MSDP) [RFC3618] according to guidelines set forth in section 4.2 of Keying and Authentication for Routing Protocols Design Guidelines [RFC6518]. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-karp-routing-tcp-analysis/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-karp-routing-tcp-analysis/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.