Subject: [Idr] [IANA #810453] Last Call: <draft-ietf-idr-error-handling-18.txt> (Revised Error Handling for BGP UPDATE Messages) to Proposed Standard

From: "Amanda Baber via RT" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 05:56:41 +0000

(BEGIN IANA LAST CALL COMMENTS)

IESG/Authors/WG Chairs:

IANA has reviewed draft-ietf-idr-error-handling-18, which is currently in Last Call, and has the following comments:

We understand that this document doesn't require any IANA actions. 

While it is helpful for the IANA Considerations section of the document to remain in place upon publication, if the authors prefer to remove it, IANA doesn't object.

If this assessment is not accurate, please respond as soon as possible.

Thanks,

Amanda Baber
IANA Request Specialist
ICANN

(END IANA LAST CALL COMMENTS)

On Thu Feb 26 21:01:39 2015, [email-masked] wrote:
> 
> 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
> [email-masked] mailing lists by 2015-03-12. Exceptionally, comments may be
> sent to [email-masked] instead. In either case, please retain the
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> 
> 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.
> 
>