--- 1/draft-ietf-idr-bgp-extended-messages-24.txt 2018-05-21 10:13:19.086663073 -0700 +++ 2/draft-ietf-idr-bgp-extended-messages-25.txt 2018-05-21 10:13:19.102663457 -0700 @@ -1,21 +1,21 @@ Network Working Group R. Bush Internet-Draft Internet Initiative Japan Updates: 4271 (if approved) K. Patel Intended status: Standards Track Arrcus, Inc. -Expires: May 23, 2018 D. Ward +Expires: November 22, 2018 D. Ward Cisco Systems - November 19, 2017 + May 21, 2018 Extended Message support for BGP - draft-ietf-idr-bgp-extended-messages-24 + draft-ietf-idr-bgp-extended-messages-25 Abstract The BGP specification mandates a maximum BGP message size of 4096 octets. As BGP is extended to support newer AFI/SAFIs and other features, there is a need to extend the maximum message size beyond 4096 octets. This document updates the BGP specification RFC4271 by providing an extension to BGP to extend its current maximum message size from 4096 octets to 65535 octets for all except the OPEN message. @@ -36,25 +36,25 @@ 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 https://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 May 23, 2018. + This Internet-Draft will expire on November 22, 2018. Copyright Notice - Copyright (c) 2017 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the + Copyright (c) 2018 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 (https://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 @@ -103,25 +103,25 @@ BGP Extended Messages. A peer which does not advertise this capability MUST NOT send BGP Extended Messages, and BGP Extended Messages MUST NOT be sent to it. The BGP Extended Message Capability is a new BGP Capability [RFC5492] defined with Capability code 6 and Capability length 0. 4. Operation - A BGP speaker that is willing to send and receive BGP Extended - Messages with a peer SHOULD advertise the BGP Extended Message - Capability to the peer using BGP Capabilities Advertisement - [RFC5492]. A BGP speaker MAY send Extended Messages to its peer only - if it has received the Extended Message Capability from that peer. + A BGP speaker that is capable of sending and receiving BGP Extended + Messages SHOULD advertise the BGP Extended Message Capability to the + peer using BGP Capabilities Advertisement [RFC5492]. A BGP speaker + MAY send Extended Messages to its peer only if it has received the + Extended Message Capability from that peer. The Extended Message Capability only applies to all messages except for the OPEN message. This exception is reduce compexity of providing backward compatibility An implementation that advertises support for BGP Extended Messages MUST be capable of receiving a message with a length up to and including 65535 octets. Applications generating information which might be encapsulated