RFC 9687 on Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) Send Hold Timer

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        RFC 9687

        Title:      Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) Send Hold Timer 
        Author:     J. Snijders,
                    B. Cartwright-Cox,
                    Y. Qu
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       November 2024
        Mailbox:    job@fastly.com,
                    ben@benjojo.co.uk,
                    yingzhen.ietf@gmail.com
        Pages:      8
        Updates:    RFC 4271

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-idr-bgp-sendholdtimer-15.txt

        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9687

        DOI:        10.17487/RFC9687

This document defines the SendHoldTimer, along with the
SendHoldTimer_Expires event, for the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Finite State Machine (FSM).  Implementation of the SendHoldTimer
helps overcome situations where a BGP connection is not terminated
after the local system detects that the remote system is not
processing BGP messages.  This document specifies that the local
system should close the BGP connection and not solely rely on the
remote system for connection closure when the SendHoldTimer expires.
This document updates RFC 4271.

This document is a product of the Inter-Domain Routing Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard.

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