What is going on with BGP

Tue Jun 13 07:47:19 UTC 2023

Le Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 02:42:47AM +0100, Ignas Bagdonas a écrit :
> A brief overview of developments happening in the IETF working groups
> related to BGP evolution. The view is current as of mid-2023, in the
> timeframe between IETF meetings 116 and 117, and looking back several years
> to cover the recently published documents. The overview is given from the
> perspective of development of the protocol mechanics and recommended
> operational considerations, and is not directly related to specific
> implementation aspects of specific platforms – for that you would need to
> consult your vendors’ documentation. It is not expected that all of the
> functionality described here will be universally productized, as well as
> there will be specific deviations and extensions to functionality
> implemented by different vendors as seen required by the market. This is
> not an end to end overview of BGP, instead it focuses on specific protocol
> changes and therefore it is assumed that a reader has a sufficient
> understanding of foundations of BGP and its supporting machinery. It is a
> high level overview and does not go deep into the specifics, pointers to
> documents are provided for further and more detailed view into the topics
> under the discussion. This part covers the core protocol part and
> mechanisms specific to IPv4 unicast and IPv6 unicast AFs.
> 

Thank you for this summary.