RFC 9003 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2021

Extended BGP Administrative Shutdown Communication

Overview

RFC 9003, “Extended BGP Administrative Shutdown Communication”, is a Proposed Standard document published in January 2021 by J. Snijders, J. Heitz, J. Scudder, A. Azimov. It updates RFC 4486. It obsoletes RFC 8203. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

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.

Abstract as published in the RFC, via rfc-editor.org.

What “Proposed Standard” means

An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.

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Relationships to other RFCs
This RFC obsoletes
RFC 8203
This RFC updates
RFC 4486
Other RFCs from 2021

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