It works for iBGP links too. An iBGP link is not to another AS.

Thanks,
Jakob.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: GROW [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of heasley
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2017 10:07 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [GROW] draft-ietf-grow-bgp-gshut
> 
> Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 01:57:54PM +0000, [email protected]:
> >  > Suggestions:
> >  >
> >  > OLD Abstract:
> >  >    This draft describes operational procedures aimed at reducing the
> >  >    amount of traffic lost during planned maintenances of routers or
> >  >    links, involving the shutdown of BGP peering sessions.
> >  > NEW Abstract:
> >  >    This draft describes operational procedures aimed at reducing the
> >  >    amount of traffic lost during planned maintenances of routers or
> >  >    links, involving the shutdown of BGP peering sessions. Additionally
> >  >    this document describes the use of a well-known Border Gateway
> >  >    Protocol (BGP) community to signal that a graceful shutdown has been
> >  >    initiated for the tagged prefix.
> >
> > [Bruno] OK. Slightly reworded as "It defines a well-known BGP community, 
> > called gshut, to signal the graceful
> shutdown of paths to other Autonomous Systems."
> 
> s/paths to other Autonomous Systems./a path in the presence of other paths./
> 
> ie: it does nothing when there is no other path and it may not move to
> anoter AS, just to another path.  it is per-session, not per-AS.
> 
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