[Idr] Solicit feedbacks on draft-dong-idr-end-of-rib-use-extension

[Jie Dong <[e-mail]>]

Dear all, 

Internet-Draft draft-dong-idr-end-of-rib-use-extension was submitted before Quebec IETF. The url is: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dong-idr-end-of-rib-use-extension-00

Since BGP End-of-Rib (EoR) would be useful for general BGP convergence, this draft proposes to define a EoR capability to negotiate the use of EoR between BGP peers. This makes EoR an independent feature and could be used without supporting or enabling GR capability. As according to BGP GR (RFC4724), BGP peers can only negotiate the combination of EoR and GR capability.

We've received some offline comments, one of which suggested an alternative solution: respin GR specification and cover this scenario: negotiate only EoR, no GR. 

Thus we would have two alternatives here:
either we define a simple and dedicated capability for EoR, 
or we respin BGP GR with some further capability negotiation functionality to cover this case.

We would like to solicit feedbacks and opinions on this draft and also the alternatives.

Many thanks,
Jie