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Re: [Idr] [GROW] draft-snijders-idr-shutdown-00: Drop a line in the peer's syslog at shutdown

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Wed, 16 November 2016 16:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idr] [GROW] draft-snijders-idr-shutdown-00: Drop a line in the peer's syslog at shutdown
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Job Snijders wrote:
>>From an operational perspective it is really useful if you can drop a
> line in the peer's syslog which covers why you shutdown a BGP session.
> A common use case is to provide a reference between the shutdown event
> and an emailed maintenance notification, or maybe you want to make an
> emotional statement.

Can we please adopt this as a WG doc in whatever WG is most appropriate?
 IDR? This looks like a ridiculously useful operational tool.

UTF8 please, considering the extent to which us-ascii does not provide
an adequate character set for a huge percentage of the world's operator
population.

Nick

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