Avoid BGP Best Path Transitions from One External to Another
draft-ietf-idr-avoid-transition-05

[Ballot comment]
Section 4., paragraph 10:
>    Due to the interaction of route reflection [BGP-RR] and MEDs, the

  Expand the "MED" acronym.


Section 9., paragraph 1:

>    [BGP] Y. Rekhter, T. Li, and S. Hares, "A Border Gateway Protocol 4
>    (BGP-4)", draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-26.txt, October 2004.

  Has been published as RFC4271.

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The rest are all nits that can be fixed whenever.

INTRODUCTION, paragraph 12:
>    The proposed revision would
>    help the overall network stability, and more importantly, would
>    eliminate certain BGP route oscillations in which more than one
>    external paths from one BGP speaker contribute to the churn.

  Nit: "Would?" Not "does?" (Also elsewhere in the document.)


Section 4., paragraph 1:
>    and forwarding changes in a network, thus help the overall network
>    stabilities.

  Nit: s/stabilities./stability./


Section 4., paragraph 2:
>    which more than one external paths from one BGP speaker contribute to

  Nit: s/paths/path/ s/contribute/contributes/

[Ballot discuss]
INTRODUCTION, paragraph 11:
>    In this document we propose a revision to the BGP route selection
>    rules that would avoid unnecessary best path transitions between
>    external paths under certain conditions.

  DISCUSS: This sounds like this document updates [BGP], i.e., RFC4271.
  Need to add a corresponding header and be more explicit about it
  in the text.

[Ballot discuss]
I do not believe that it is appropriate for the IESG to approve this document in the 3/8 telechat, if the IETF Last Call ends only on 3/12. In theory community input can show-up after the telechat which would not have a chance to be known to the IESG at the time of the decision about this document.

From: Yakov Rekhter
Subject: [Idr] draft-ietf-idr-avoid-transition-04.txt to Proposed
        Standard
Date: Fri, Feb 24 08:40:41
To: Bill Fenner
Cc: idr@ietf.org

Bill,

This is to request to advance draft-ietf-idr-avoid-transition-04.txt
to Proposed Standard.

The implementation report is
draft-chen-bgp-avoid-ebgp-transition-survey-00.txt

Yakov.