Technical Summary
This document outlines an approach to mitigate negative impact on
networks resulting from maintenance activities. It includes guidance
for both IP networks and Internet Exchange Points (IXPs). The
approach is to ensure BGP-4 sessions affected by the maintenance are
forcefully torn down before the actual maintenance activities
commence.
Basically, this suggests tearing down the BGP session (so it can reconverge)
before breaking the data-plane. This is documenting a well known,
and widely used (but not widely enough!) technique.
Working Group Summary
Nothing of note in the WG process.
Document Quality
This is documenting (with examples!) how to perform a
operational practice which minimizes breakage. It is a
simple, but effective technique.
Personnel
Shepherd: Chris Morrow (christopher.morrow@gmail.com)
Responsible AD: Warren Kumari (warren@kumari.net)