The IESG has received a request from the Inter-Domain Routing WG (idr) to consider the following document: - 'Revised Error Handling for BGP UPDATE Messages' <draft-ietf-idr-error-handling-18.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 2015-03-12. 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 According to the base BGP specification, a BGP speaker that receives an UPDATE message containing a malformed attribute is required to reset the session over which the offending attribute was received. This behavior is undesirable, because a session reset would impact not only routes with the offending attribute, but also other, valid routes exchanged over the session. This document partially revises the error handling for UPDATE messages and provides guidelines for the authors of documents defining new attributes. Finally, it revises the error handling procedures for a number of existing attributes. This document updates error handling for RFCs 1997, 4271, 4360, 4456, 4760, 5543, 5701 and 6368. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-error-handling/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-error-handling/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
