Technical Summary
BGP Route Flap damping seeks to reduce the BGP
churn in routers. First described in operators forms
(RIPE, [ripe178]) and RFC2430 it was harsh
penalizing sites for being well-connected because
topology riches amplified the number of updates.
Therefore, many operators turned it off [ripe378].
However, now because new measurements f[plesser2011]
indicates a different suppression hold (6000) BGP
update rate can be reduced by 19%. Ripe, a
European Operator forum, has endorse these new
settings [ripe580]. The Japanese operators have
reported their use of the new RFD and their
desires for implementation
[shishio-grow-isp-rfd-implement-survey].
Working Group Summary
WG Group had consensus over the last call. During
the last call, a suggestion for addition features was made.
The chairs/WG suggested this would be a follow-on
draft rather than an addition to the current draft.
Document Quality
Existing implementation of RFD exist in Juniper and
Cisco. Protocol deployments
[shishio-grow-isp-rfd-implement-survey] found bugs which
have been fixed. The Japanese operator and RIPE operator
community have reviewed these documents, and the
Japanese operator community given the response in
[shishio-grow-isp-rfd-implement-survey].
Personnel
Shepherd: Susan Hares (WG chair),
AD: Stewart Bryant
RFC Editor Note
The title of Table 1
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Default RFD Paramaters of Juniper and Cisco
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The default RFD parameters for Cisco and Juniper provided for the information of the reader.
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