BGP Capabilities Negotiation
While the BGP Capabilities Negotiation specification is still being developed by the IETF IDR (Inter-Domain Routing) Working Group[5], we'll touch on its usefulness here in order to foster understanding for future discussions of new mechanisms that utilize the facilities it provides in order to introduce new features to BGP.
The Capabilities Negotiation with BGP-4 specification is currently in draft form and is still a "work in progress." The purpose of this specification is to introduce a new optional parameter to BGP-4 called Capabilities. It is expected to facilitate the introduction of new features in BGP by providing graceful capability negotiation without requiring that the BGP peering be terminated.
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