Internet DRAFT - draft-ietf-idr-deprecate-8-9-10

draft-ietf-idr-deprecate-8-9-10







IDR                                                          J. Snijders
Internet-Draft                                                    Fastly
Intended status: Standards Track                         12 October 2022
Expires: 15 April 2023


      Deprecation of BGP OPEN Message Error subcodes 8, 9, and 10.
                   draft-ietf-idr-deprecate-8-9-10-00

Abstract

   This document requests IANA to mark BGP OPEN Message Error subcodes
   8, 9, and 10 as "deprecated".

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   3.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   4.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3

1.  Introduction

   It has been discovered that certain BGP OPEN Message Error subcodes
   have been used in BGP implementations which have been deployed in the
   wild while not being assigned by the IANA for such usage.
   Unregistered usage of BGP OPEN Message Error subcodes can lead to
   increased difficulty when troubleshooting why BGP sessions are torn
   down.

   The use of these unregistered values was noticed when the concept of
   Route Leak Prevention and Detection using Roles in UPDATE and OPEN
   Messages [RFC9234] was initially assigned value 8 by IANA.  It was
   subsequently discovered that a widely-deployed BGP-4 [RFC4271]
   implementation had released code which used BGP OPEN Message Error
   Subcode 8.  As a workaround, a new Early IANA Allocation is to be
   requested.

   The squatting of values 8, 9, and 10 has been confirmed by the
   involved vendors or through source code review.

2.  IANA Considerations

   Per this document, IANA is requested to mark values 8, 9, and 10 as
   "deprecated" in the "OPEN Message Error subcodes" registry under the
   "Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Parameters" group.  The marking
   "deprecated" meaning "use is not recommended" ([RFC8126]).

3.  Security Considerations

   There are no meaningful security consequences arising from this
   registry update.

4.  Informative References

   [RFC4271]  Rekhter, Y., Ed., Li, T., Ed., and S. Hares, Ed., "A
              Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)", RFC 4271,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4271, January 2006,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4271>.





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   [RFC8126]  Cotton, M., Leiba, B., and T. Narten, "Guidelines for
              Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26,
              RFC 8126, DOI 10.17487/RFC8126, June 2017,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8126>.

   [RFC9234]  Azimov, A., Bogomazov, E., Bush, R., Patel, K., and K.
              Sriram, "Route Leak Prevention and Detection Using Roles
              in UPDATE and OPEN Messages", RFC 9234,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC9234, May 2022,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9234>.

Author's Address

   Job Snijders
   Fastly
   Amsterdam
   Netherlands
   Email: job@fastly.com

































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