i think that's fine.
jmc

On 17 January 2025 12:22:37 GMT, Claudio Jeker <cjeker@diehard.n-r-g.com> wrote:
>The list of authors does not add value to the bgpd manual page.
>So I think it is better to just drop them. With this the list of RFCs
>becomes shorter and is easier to read.
>
>-- 
>:wq Claudio
>
>Index: bgpd.8
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/bgpd/bgpd.8,v
>diff -u -p -r1.83 bgpd.8
>--- bgpd.8	13 Jan 2025 13:50:34 -0000	1.83
>+++ bgpd.8	17 Jan 2025 12:19:49 -0000
>@@ -228,378 +228,246 @@ has been started.
> .Xr bgplgsh 8
> .Sh STANDARDS
> .Rs
>-.%A R. Chandra
>-.%A P. Traina
>-.%A "T. Li"
> .%D August 1996
> .%R RFC 1997
> .%T BGP Communities Attribute
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A A. Heffernan
> .%D August 1998
> .%R RFC 2385
> .%T Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signature Option
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A P. Marques
>-.%A F. Dupont
> .%D March 1999
> .%R RFC 2545
> .%T Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A E. Chen
> .%D September 2000
> .%R RFC 2918
> .%T Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A G. Huston
> .%D April 2004
> .%R RFC 3765
> .%T NOPEER Community for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Route Scope Control
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A Y. Rekhter
>-.%A "T. Li"
>-.%A S. Hares
> .%D January 2006
> .%R RFC 4271
> .%T A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A S. Sangli
>-.%A D. Tappan
>-.%A Y. Rekhter
> .%D February 2006
> .%R RFC 4360
> .%T BGP Extended Communities Attribute
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A E. Rosen
>-.%A Y. Rekhter
> .%D February 2006
> .%R RFC 4364
> .%T BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A T. Bates
>-.%A E. Chen
>-.%A R. Chandra
> .%D April 2006
> .%R RFC 4456
> .%T "BGP Route Reflection: An Alternative to Full Mesh Internal BGP (IBGP)"
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A E. Chen
>-.%A V. Gillet
> .%D April 2006
> .%R RFC 4486
> .%T Subcodes for BGP Cease Notification Message
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A S. Sangli
>-.%A E. Chen
>-.%A R. Fernando
>-.%A J. Scudder
>-.%A Y. Rekhter
> .%D January 2007
> .%R RFC 4724
> .%T Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A T. Bates
>-.%A R. Chandra
>-.%A D. Katz
>-.%A Y. Rekhter
> .%D January 2007
> .%R RFC 4760
> .%T Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A V. Gill
>-.%A J. Heasley
>-.%A D. Meyer
>-.%A P. Savola
>-.%A C. Pignataro
> .%D October 2007
> .%R RFC 5082
> .%T The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM)
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A J. Scudder
>-.%A R. Chandra
> .%D February 2009
> .%R RFC 5492
> .%T Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A Y. Rekhter
>-.%A S. Sangli
>-.%A D. Tappan
> .%D October 2009
> .%R RFC 5668
> .%T 4-Octet AS Specific BGP Extended Community
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A E. Chen
>-.%A J. Yuan
> .%D June 2011
> .%R RFC 6286
> .%T Autonomous-System-Wide Unique BGP Identifier for BGP-4
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A J. Dong
>-.%A M. Chen
>-.%A A. Suryanarayana
> .%D May 2012
> .%R RFC 6608
> .%T Subcodes for BGP Finite State Machine Error
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A Q. Vohra
>-.%A E. Chen
> .%D Dec 2012
> .%R RFC 6793
> .%T BGP Support for Four-Octet Autonomous System (AS) Number Space
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A E. Chen
>-.%A J. Scudder
>-.%A P. Mohapatra
>-.%A K. Patel
> .%D August 2015
> .%R RFC 7606
> .%T Revised Error Handling for BGP UPDATE Messages
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A L. Blunk
>-.%A M. Karir
>-.%A C. Labovitz
> .%D October 2011
> .%R RFC 6396
> .%T Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit (MRT) Routing Information Export Format
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A J. Dong
>-.%A M. Chen
>-.%A A. Suryanarayana
> .%D May 2012
> .%R RFC 6608
> .%T Subcodes for BGP Finite State Machine Error
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A K. Patel
>-.%A E. Chen
>-.%A B. Venkatachalapathy
> .%D July 2014
> .%R RFC 7313
> .%T Enhanced Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A W. Kumari
>-.%A R. Bush
>-.%A H. Schiller
>-.%A K. Patel
> .%D August 2015
> .%R RFC 7607
> .%T Codification of AS 0 Processing
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A D. Walton
>-.%A A. Retana
>-.%A E. Chen
>-.%A J. Scudder
> .%D July 2016
> .%R RFC 7911
> .%T Advertisement of Multiple Paths in BGP
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A E. Jasinska
>-.%A N. Hilliard
>-.%A R. Raszuk
>-.%A N. Bakker
> .%D September 2016
> .%R RFC 7947
> .%T Internet Exchange BGP Route Server
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A C. Petrie
>-.%A T. King
> .%D May 2017
> .%R RFC 8050
> .%T Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit (MRT) Routing Information Export Format with BGP Additional Path Extensions
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A J. Heitz
>-.%A J. Snijders
>-.%A K. Patel
>-.%A I. Bagdonas
>-.%A N. Hilliard
> .%D February 2017
> .%R RFC 8092
> .%T BGP Large Communities Attribute
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A P. Mohapatra
>-.%A K. Patel
>-.%A J. Scudder
>-.%A D. Ward
>-.%A R. Bush
> .%D March 2017
> .%R RFC 8097
> .%T BGP Prefix Origin Validation State Extended Community
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A J. Snijders
>-.%A J. Heitz
>-.%A J. Scudder
> .%D July 2017
> .%R RFC 8203
> .%T BGP Administrative Shutdown Communication
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A R. Bush
>-.%A R. Austein
> .%D September 2017
> .%R RFC 8210
> .%T The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) to Router Protocol, Version 1
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A J. Mauch
>-.%A J. Snijders
>-.%A G. Hankins
> .%D July 2017
> .%R RFC 8212
> .%T Default External BGP (EBGP) Route Propagation Behavior without Policies
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A P. Francois
>-.%A B. Decraene
>-.%A C. Pelsser
>-.%A K. Patel
>-.%A C. Filsfils
> .%D March 2018
> .%R RFC 8326
> .%T Graceful BGP Session Shutdown
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A K. Patel
>-.%A R. Fernando
>-.%A J. Scudder
>-.%A J. Haas
> .%D March 2019
> .%R RFC 8538
> .%T Notification Message Support for BGP Graceful Restart
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A R. Bush
>-.%A K. Patel
>-.%A D. Ward
> .%D October 2019
> .%R RFC 8654
> .%T Extended Message Support for BGP
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A S. Litkowski
>-.%A S. Agrawal
>-.%A K. Ananthamurthy
>-.%A K. Patel
> .%D November 2020
> .%R RFC 8950
> .%T Advertising IPv4 Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI) with an IPv6 Next Hop
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A C. Loibl
>-.%A S. Hares
>-.%A R. Raszuk
>-.%A D. McPherson
>-.%A M. Bacher
> .%D December 2020
> .%R RFC 8955
> .%T Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A C. Loibl
>-.%A R. Raszuk
>-.%A S. Hares
> .%D December 2020
> .%R RFC 8956
> .%T Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules for IPv6
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A E. Chen
>-.%A J. Scudder
> .%D July 2021
> .%R RFC 9072
> .%T Extended Optional Parameters Length for BGP OPEN Message
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A A. Azimov
>-.%A E. Bogomazov
>-.%A R. Bush
>-.%A K. Patel
>-.%A K. Sriram
> .%D May 2022
> .%R RFC 9234
> .%T Route Leak Prevention and Detection Using Roles in UPDATE and OPEN Messages
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A J. Snijders
>-.%A B. Cartwright-Cox
>-.%A Y. Qu
> .%D November 2024
> .%R RFC 9687
> .%T Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) Send Hold Timer
> .Re
> .Pp
> .Rs
>-.%A A. Azimov
>-.%A E. Bogomazov
>-.%A R. Bush
>-.%A K. Patel
>-.%A J. Snijders
>-.%A K. Sriram
> .%D October 2022
> .%R draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-verification
> .%T BGP AS_PATH Verification Based on Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Autonomous System Provider Authorization (ASPA) Objects
>