Technical Summary
In this document we enhance the existing BGP route refresh mechanisms
to provide for the demarcation of the beginning and the ending of a
route refresh. The enhancement can be used to facilitate correction
of BGP RIB inconsistencies in a non-disruptive manner.
Working Group Summary
WG discussion was extremely active and produced
changes that were fed back into the implementations of
3 router vendors.
Document Quality
Debate provided good feedback and refinement for 3 implementations.
2 Implementations (Cisco and NTT I3) are described the implementation report:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-idr-enhanced-refresh-impl-00
Personnel
Document shepherd: Susan Hares
Responsible AD: Alia Atlas
IANA Note
IANA is requested to modify the name of a registry at http://www.iana.org/assignments/bgp-parameters/
OLD: BGP Error Codes
NEW: BGP Error (Notification) Codes