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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Time to revise RFC 1771
RFC 1771's guidance on what to do with a announcement may have been filled with good intentions, however the few times it has been executed, it seems to create excessive harm to the Internet. I propose it is time to revise RFC 1771. WHEREAS, the error handling of RFC1771 is invoked where there is a dispute between two implementations of BGP. WHEREAS, these disputes may be caused by any number of reasons, including both implementations doing what they each believe are reasonable actions. WHEREAS, the resolution of these disputes may be time consuming, RESOLVED, the error handling mechanism should be revised to reject only the portion of the announcement in dispute instead of disrupting the entire BGP session. This would result in a small number of networks, most likely those who originated the disputed announcement or are closely associated with the announcer, being disrupted. But the portion of the Internet with generally accepted announcements would not be affected. This limits the colleteral damage from these disputed announcements to the small number of networks in dispute.
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