Subject: Re: [Idr] New Version Notification for draft-ymbk-bgp-extended-messages-02

From: Russ Housley <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:17:00 -0400

I'll support adoption of this draft by the IDR WG.

Russ 

> From: ... On Behalf Of Keyur Patel
> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:16 PM
> To: idr at ietf.org; Randy Bush
> Subject: Re: [Idr] New Version Notification for 
> draft-ymbk-bgp-extended-messages-02
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Rev 2 of the draft makes the Extended message capability 
> symmetrical. With
> that change, authors of this draft document would like to propose the
> adoption of this work as IDR WG item.
> 
> Regards,
> Keyur
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/14/11 5:59 PM, "Randy Bush" <randy at psg.com> wrote:
> 
> > A new version of I-D, 
> draft-ymbk-bgp-extended-messages-02.txt has been
> > successfully submitted by Randy Bush and posted to the IETF 
> repository.
> > 
> > Filename:  draft-ymbk-bgp-extended-messages
> > Revision:  02
> > Title:   Extended Message support for BGP
> > Creation_date:  2011-04-15
> > WG ID:   Independent Submission
> > Number_of_pages: 5
> > 
> > Abstract:
> > The current BGP specification mandates a maximum BGP message size of
> > 4096 octets.  As BGP is extended to support newer 
> AFI/SAFIs, there is
> > a need to extend the maximum message size beyond 4096 octets.  This
> > draft provides an extension for BGP to extend its current message
> > size for BGP messages from 4096 octets to 65535 octets.
> >                  
> > 
> > 
> > The IETF Secretariat.