{"draft":"draft-ietf-idr-avoid-transition-05","doc_id":"RFC5004","title":"Avoid BGP Best Path Transitions from One External to Another","authors":["E. Chen","S. Sangli"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"6","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Inter-Domain Routing","abstract":"In this document, we propose an extension to the BGP route selection rules\r\nthat would avoid unnecessary best path transitions\r\nbetween external paths under certain conditions.  The proposed extension\r\nwould help the overall network stability, and more importantly, would\r\neliminate certain BGP route oscillations in which more than one external\r\npath from one BGP speaker contributes to the churn.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"September 2007","keywords":["[--------|p]","border gateway protocol"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC5004","errata_url":null}