Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) Send Hold Timer
draft-ietf-idr-bgp-sendholdtimer-15

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Subject: Protocol Action: 'Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) Send Hold Timer' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-idr-bgp-sendholdtimer-15.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) Send Hold Timer'
  (draft-ietf-idr-bgp-sendholdtimer-15.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Inter-Domain Routing Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Gunter Van de Velde, Jim Guichard, John Scudder
and Roman Danyliw.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-bgp-sendholdtimer/

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

   This document defines the SendHoldtimer, along with the
   SendHoldTimer_Expires event, for the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
   Finite State Machine (FSM).  Implementation of the SendHoldTimer
   helps overcome situations where a BGP connection is not terminated
   after the local system detects that the remote system is not
   processing BGP messages.  This document specifies that the local
   system should close the BGP connection and not solely rely on the
   remote system for connection closure when the SendHoldTimer expires.
   This document updates RFC4271.

Working Group Summary

This draft received significant commentary over its lifetime from original
submission to Working Group last call.

Since this draft is of significant interest to the Internet operator community,
it received significant scrutiny and support from participants that do not
traditionally comment on IDR drafts.

The shepherd write-up (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-bgp-sendholdtimer/shepherdwriteup/) extensively documents the WG discussions.

Document Quality

See https://wiki.ietf.org/en/group/idr/implementations/draft-ietf-idr-sendholdtimer for an implementation summary.

Personnel

   The Document Shepherd for this document is Jeffrey Haas. The Responsible
   Area Director is Roman Danyliw.

RFC Editor Note