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RFC 9003: Extended BGP Administrative Shutdown Communication

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This document enhances the BGP Cease NOTIFICATION message "Administrative Shutdown" and "Administrative Reset" subcodes for operators to transmit a short free-form message to describe why a BGP session was shut down or reset. This document updates RFC 4486 and obsoletes RFC 8203 by defining an Extended BGP Administrative Shutdown Communication of up to 255 octets to improve communication using multibyte character sets.

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Document ID
RFC9003
Published
January 2021
Authors
J. Snijders; J. Heitz; J. Scudder; A. Azimov
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
rtg
Pages
7
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RFC 8203
Updates:
RFC 4486

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