The IESG has received a request from the Benchmarking Methodology WG (bmwg) to consider the following document: - 'Basic BGP Convergence Benchmarking Methodology for Data Plane Convergence' <draft-ietf-bmwg-bgp-basic-convergence-04.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 2014-11-10. 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 BGP is widely deployed and used by several service providers as the default Inter AS routing protocol. It is of utmost importance to ensure that when a BGP peer or a downstream link of a BGP peer fails, the alternate paths are rapidly used and routes via these alternate paths are installed. This document provides the basic BGP Benchmarking Methodology using existing BGP Convergence Terminology, RFC 4098. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bmwg-bgp-basic-convergence/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bmwg-bgp-basic-convergence/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
