Re: [Idr] Last Call: <draft-ietf-idr-shutdown-08.txt> (BGP Administrative Shutdown Communication) to Proposed Standard

Hi, Folks:

Just spotted this (apologies for not catching it earlier):

The draft specifies only 0 - 128 as valid in the one-octet length field.
Not sure if there is a strong reason for such an apparent over-specification.

It seems to me that the spec can and should be simplified by removing the
restriction, that is, to allow any value (0 - 255) to be valid.  That would
also eliminate one error condition for the implementation.

Thanks.  -- Enke

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2.  Shutdown Communication

Length:  this 8-bit field represents the length of the Shutdown
      Communication field in octets.  The length value MUST range from 0
      to 128 inclusive.

4.  Error Handling

   If a Shutdown Communication with an invalid Length value,
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On 5/5/17 10:54 AM, The IESG wrote:
> 
> The IESG has received a request from the Inter-Domain Routing WG (idr) to
> consider the following document:
> - 'BGP Administrative Shutdown Communication'
>   <draft-ietf-idr-shutdown-08.txt> as Proposed Standard
> 
> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
> final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
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> 
> Abstract
> 
> 
>    This document enhances the BGP Cease NOTIFICATION message
>    "Administrative Shutdown" and "Administrative Reset" subcodes for
>    operators to transmit a short freeform message to describe why a BGP
>    session was shutdown or reset.  This document updates RFC 4486.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The file can be obtained via
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-shutdown/
> 
> IESG discussion can be tracked via
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-shutdown/ballot/
> 
> 
> No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
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