Re: [Idr] IETF LC for IDR-ish document <draft-ietf-grow-bgp-reject-05.txt> (Default EBGP Route Propagation Behavior Without Policies) to Proposed Standard

[Jeffrey Haas <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 11:54:29AM -0400, Eric C Rosen wrote:
> FWIW, my take on it is the following.
> 
> The document should not be considered to be an update to 4271, as it
> does not change anything 4271 says, and does not update or extend
> the protocol in any way.  Standards track seems entirely
> inappropriate, as there is no protocol specification in it.
> 
> The document is not really a Best Current Practices document, as it
> advocates a change from current practice.

FWIW, BCP is probably the best targeted status for the document.  I agree
with you completely that this doesn't document deployed code behavior, but
it is the "best practice" for running a network.

At the end of the day, the document status only impacts conformance suites.
And even those depend on the user saying "test these features".

-- Jeff