> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:22:37 +0100
> From: Claudio Jeker <cjeker@diehard.n-r-g.com>
> 
> 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.

I know Theo tends to use the word "academic" as an insult, but the
accepted minimal amount of information in a citation most definitely
does include author names.

> 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
> 
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