--- 1/draft-ietf-idr-bgp-extended-messages-06.txt 2014-01-27 07:14:37.117432232 -0800 +++ 2/draft-ietf-idr-bgp-extended-messages-07.txt 2014-01-27 07:14:37.129432536 -0800 @@ -1,20 +1,20 @@ IDR Working Group K. Patel Internet-Draft D. Ward Intended status: Standards Track Cisco Systems -Expires: February 04, 2014 R. Bush +Expires: July 31, 2014 R. Bush Internet Initiative Japan - August 03, 2013 + January 27, 2014 Extended Message support for BGP - draft-ietf-idr-bgp-extended-messages-06 + draft-ietf-idr-bgp-extended-messages-07 Abstract The BGP specification mandates a maximum BGP message size of 4096 octets. As BGP is extended to support newer AFI/SAFIs, there is a need to extend the maximum message size beyond 4096 octets. This document updates [RFC4271] by providing an extension to BGP to extend its current message size from 4096 octets to 65535 octets. Requirements Language @@ -33,25 +33,25 @@ Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." - This Internet-Draft will expire on February 04, 2014. + This Internet-Draft will expire on July 31, 2014. Copyright Notice - Copyright (c) 2013 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the + Copyright (c) 2014 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as @@ -126,20 +126,26 @@ The IANA is requested to register a new BGP Capability Code in the upper range named BGP Extended Message Capability referring to this document. 7. Security Considerations This extension to BGP does not change BGP's underlying security issues. + Many have said that BGP does not reveal sensitive data in the + presence of pervasive monitoring. While the topology information in + inter-provider BGP can be gained through other means, perhaps it does + not need to be made trivially easy. And BGP's use in VPN signaling + would seem to be sensitive. Perhaps this needs more thought. + 8. References 8.1. Normative References [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC4271] Rekhter, Y., Li, T., and S. Hares, "A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)", RFC 4271, January 2006.