@misc{rfc9003, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 9003, howpublished = {RFC 9003}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC9003}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9003}, author = {Job Snijders and Jakob Heitz and John Scudder and Alexander Azimov}, title = {{Extended BGP Administrative Shutdown Communication}}, pagetotal = 7, year = 2021, month = jan, abstract = {This document enhances the BGP Cease NOTIFICATION message "Administrative Shutdown" and "Administrative Reset" subcodes for operators to transmit a short free-form message to describe why a BGP session was shut down or reset. This document updates RFC 4486 and obsoletes RFC 8203 by defining an Extended BGP Administrative Shutdown Communication of up to 255 octets to improve communication using multibyte character sets.}, }