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Revised Error Handling for BGP UPDATE Messages
draft-ietf-idr-optional-transitive-04

Document Type Replaced Internet-Draft (idr WG)
Expired & archived
Authors John Scudder , Enke Chen , Prodosh Mohapatra , Keyur Patel
Last updated 2011-11-16 (Latest revision 2011-10-25)
Replaces draft-scudder-idr-optional-transitive
Replaced by draft-ietf-idr-error-handling
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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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 as 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 optional attributes. Finally, it revises the error handling procedures for several existing attributes.

Authors

John Scudder
Enke Chen
Prodosh Mohapatra
Keyur Patel

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