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Re: bgp4-17 Cease subcode

Greg Hankins <ghankins@riverstonenet.com> Thu, 17 January 2002 00:09 UTC

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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:08:51 -0500
From: Greg Hankins <ghankins@riverstonenet.com>
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Subject: Re: bgp4-17 Cease subcode
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 11:10:47AM -0800, Alex Zinin wrote:
> Introduction of the IdleHold does change the FSM,
> and I thought we wanted the spec to reflect the current
> running code as much as possible.

Agreed.  Changing the FSM at this point doesn't seem like it is worth the
impact that this change would have on existing implementations, given that
there are other implementation-dependant ways of doing the same thing.

A change in the FSM would make every BGP implementation and every piece of
documentation written on BGP outdated.  I'm not saying that this shouldn't
be done if, there is a valid technical reason.

Maybe the exponential backoff parts could be published as a separate draft
instead of including it in the base specification?

Greg

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