{"draft":"draft-ietf-bmwg-bgp-basic-convergence-05","doc_id":"RFC7747","title":"Basic BGP Convergence Benchmarking Methodology for Data-Plane Convergence","authors":["R. Papneja","B. Parise","S. Hares","D. Lee","I. Varlashkin"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"35","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"Benchmarking Methodology","abstract":"BGP is widely deployed and used by several service providers as the\r\ndefault inter-AS (Autonomous System) routing protocol.  It is of\r\nutmost importance to ensure that when a BGP peer or a downstream link\r\nof a BGP peer fails, the alternate paths are rapidly used and routes\r\nvia these alternate paths are installed.  This document provides the\r\nbasic BGP benchmarking methodology using existing BGP convergence\r\nterminology as defined in RFC 4098.","pub_date":"April 2016","keywords":["BMWG"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC7747","errata_url":null}