{"draft":"draft-ietf-grow-bgp-gshut-13","doc_id":"RFC8326","title":"Graceful BGP Session Shutdown","authors":["P. Francois, Ed.","B. Decraene, Ed.","C. Pelsser","K. Patel","C. Filsfils"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"12","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Global Routing Operations","abstract":"This document standardizes a new well-known BGP community,\r\nGRACEFUL_SHUTDOWN, to signal the graceful shutdown of paths.  This\r\ndocument also describes operational procedures that use this\r\nwell-known community to reduce the amount of traffic lost when BGP peering\r\nsessions are about to be shut down deliberately, e.g., for planned\r\nmaintenance.","pub_date":"March 2018","keywords":[],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC8326","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc8326"}