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Experience with the BGP-4 protocol

Network Working Group                                          P. Traina
Request for Comments: 1773                                 cisco Systems
Obsoletes: 1656                                               March 1995
Category: Informational


                   Experience with the BGP-4 protocol

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  This memo
   does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of
   this memo is unlimited.

Introduction

   The purpose of this memo is to document how the requirements for
   advancing a routing protocol to Draft Standard have been satisfied by
   Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGP-4).  This report documents
   experience with BGP.  This is the second of two reports on the BGP
   protocol.  As required by the Internet Architecure Board (IAB) and
   the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), the first report will
   present a performance analysis of the BGP protocol.

   The remaining sections of this memo document how BGP satisfies
   General Requirements specified in Section 3.0, as well as
   Requirements for Draft Standard specified in Section 5.0 of the
   "Internet Routing Protocol Standardization Criteria" document [1].

   This report is based on the initial work of Peter Lothberg (Ebone),
   Andrew Partan (Alternet), and several others.  Details of their work
   were presented at the Twenty-fifth IETF meeting and are available
   from the IETF proceedings.

   Please send comments to .

Acknowledgments

   The BGP protocol has been developed by the IDR (formerly BGP) Working
   Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force.  I would like to
   express deepest thanks to Yakov Rekhter and Sue Hares, co-chairs of
   the IDR working group.  I'd also like to explicitly thank Yakov
   Rekhter and Tony Li for the review of this document as well as
   constructive and valuable comments.







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