On Monday, May 07, 2012 10:58 AM, Jeffrey Haas <> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 07:27:36PM +0100, Rob Shakir wrote:
>> I'd like to ask the WG their collective opinion on a couple of
>> matters in this draft, which come from some discussions at IETF83
>> (in particular with John Scudder and Adam Simpson) about how the
>> requirements are currently written regarding repeated errors.   
> 
> In reviewing this thread, there's another possible tool we could
> leverage. The consensus seems to be trending toward "if the session
> is bad enough, take it down.  Potentially hold it down if it
> continues to be bad." 
> 
> An alternative before you get to such a stage is to perform BGP
> graceful shutdown procedures on the session's routes.  This permits
> the routes to be routes of last resort until the issue is dealt with.

That raises the possibility that the routes are actually used.
That may cause loops.

-- 
Jakob Heitz.
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