BGP manage advertisement

[Job Snijders]

On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 04:35:11PM +0200, Mattia Milani wrote:
> > No. Perhaps sometimes in the future, but no definite plan.
> 
> yeah but on your site, http://bird.network.cz/?get_doc&v=20&f=bird-6.html#ss6.3
> that is the user's guide 2.0, there is this written:
> 
> Supported standards
> 
>    - RFC 4271 - Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP)
> 
> In the RFC 4271 is mentioned several times the MRAI or
> MinRouteAdvertisementIntervalTimer if you prefer, so why it isn't
> implemented?

Actually in the IETF there has been an effort to deprecate MRAI, you can
review this Internet-Draft https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-idr-mrai-dep

This follow-up discussion may interest you as well:
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/idr/uNhHCoxLWLSiKH69LT4xEr6G2Jg

This is an open source project, it depends on the efforts and
contributions the BIRD community.

Kind regards,

Job