[81523] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Document Action: 'BGP Wedgies' to Informational RFC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Church, Chuck)
Wed Jun 15 16:48:34 2005
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:47:59 -0500
From: "Church, Chuck" <cchurch@netcogov.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Will sharply 'pulling up' the MED on a rear-facing peer clear the
wedgie, or make it worse???
Sorry, couldn't resist...
Chuck=20
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From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 1:29 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: FWD: Document Action: 'BGP Wedgies' to Informational RFC=20
Direct operational relevence, methinks.
FYI.
- ferg
-- The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> wrote:
The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'BGP Wedgies '
<draft-ietf-grow-bgp-wedgies-03.txt> as an Informational RFC
This document is the product of the Global Routing Operations Working
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The IESG contact persons are David Kessens and Bert Wijnen.
A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-grow-bgp-wedgies-03.txt
Technical Summary
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It has commonly been assumed that the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
is a tool for distributing reachability information in a manner that
creates forwarding paths in a deterministic manner. In this memo we=20
will describe a class of BGP configurations for which there is more
than one potential outcome, and where forwarding states other than
the intended state are equally stable, and that the stable state
where BGP converges may be selected by BGP in a non-deterministic
manner. These stable, but unintended, BGP states are termed here
"BGP Wedgies".
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Working Group Summary
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The Grow Working Group came to consensus on this document.
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Protocol Quality
This document was reviewed for the IESG by David Kessens.
--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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