Re: Protocol Action: NOPEER community for BGP route scope control to BCP

[RFC Editor <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org>]

Greetings All,

On April 23, 2003, we received a "Document Action" email approving
version -02 of this document as "Informational".  This morning, we
received the enclosed "Protocol Action" email from the IESG
Secretariat approving version -03 of this document for BCP
publication. 

Since we received no additional messages regarding this document until
today, we proceeded to prepare the -02 version for publication.
Although we are waiting for the IANA actions to be completed, the
document is ready to be published.  We are confused as to whether this
document should be published as an "Informational" or "Best Current
Practice".

We, probably more than anyone else, understand that mistakes happen,
but we would appreciate it, if in the future, someone would let us
know that we should be awaiting a new version.

Thanks for your help.

RFC Editor



On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 11:24:35AM -0400, The IESG wrote:
> 
> The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'NOPEER community for BGP
> route scope control' <draft-ietf-ptomaine-nopeer-03.txt> as a BCP.
> This document is the product of the Prefix Taxonomy Ongoing Measurement
> & Inter Network Experiment Working Group. The IESG contact persons are
> Randy Bush and Bert Wijnen.
> 
>  Technical Summary
>    
>    This document proposes the use of a BGP community to advise BGP
>    peers and others on the scope of propagation the originating AS
>    intended for a prefix. This proposed well-known advisory
>    transitive community is intended to allow an origin AS to specify
>    the extent to which it suggests that a specific prefix should be
>    externally propagated. In particular this community, termed here
>    as NOPEER, allows an origin AS to suggest that a route with this
>    attribute need not be advertised across bilateral peer
>    connections.
>    
>  Working Group Summary
>    
>    There were no technical issues raised in working group discussion
>    or working group last call.
>    
>  Protocol Quality
>    
>    This document was reviewed for the IESG by Randy Bush.