The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4' <draft-ietf-idr-bgp-route-refresh-01.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This document is the product of the Inter-Domain Routing Working Group. The IESG contact persons are David Oran and Rob Coltun Technical Summary This document defines a new BGP capability termed 'Route Refresh Capability', which would allow the dynamic exchange of route refresh request between BGP speakers and subsequent re-advertisement of the respective Adj-RIB-Out. One possible application of this capability is to facilitate non-disruptive routing policy changes. Working Group Summary The working group supported this document and no issues were raised during IETF Last-Call Protocol Quality Rob Coltun has reviewed the spec for the IESG. There are currently multiple implementations.
