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Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet

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Network Working Group                                         Y. Rekhter
Request for Comments: 1655        T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corp.
Obsoletes: 1268                                                 P. Gross
Category: Standards Track                                            MCI
                                                                 Editors
                                                               July 1994


       Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet

Status of this Memo

   This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
   Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
   improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
   Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
   and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Abstract

   This document, together with its companion document, "A Border
   Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)", define an inter-autonomous system
   routing protocol for the Internet.  "A Border Gateway Protocol 4
   (BGP-4)" defines the BGP protocol specification, and this document
   describes the usage of the BGP in the Internet.

   Information about the progress of BGP can be monitored and/or
   reported on the BGP mailing list ().

Acknowledgements

   This document was originally published as RFC 1164 in June 1990,
   jointly authored by Jeffrey C. Honig (Cornell University), Dave Katz
   (MERIT), Matt Mathis (PSC), Yakov Rekhter (IBM), and Jessica Yu
   (MERIT).

   The following also made key contributions to RFC 1164 -- Guy Almes
   (ANS, then at Rice University), Kirk Lougheed (cisco Systems), Hans-
   Werner Braun (SDSC, then at MERIT), and Sue Hares (MERIT).

   We like to explicitly thank Bob Braden (ISI) for the review of the
   previous version of this document.

   This updated version of the document is the product of the IETF BGP
   Working Group with Phill Gross (MCI) and Yakov Rekhter (IBM) as
   editors.





Rekhter & Gross
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