RFC 5065: Autonomous System Confederations for BGP
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is an inter-autonomous system routing protocol designed for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networks. BGP requires that all BGP speakers within a single autonomous system (AS) must be fully meshed. This represents a serious scaling problem that has been well documented in a number of proposals. This document describes an extension to BGP that may be used to create a confederation of autonomous systems that is represented as a single autonomous system to BGP peers external to the confederation, thereby removing the "full mesh" requirement. The intention of this extension is to aid in policy administration and reduce the management complexity of maintaining a large autonomous system. This document obsoletes RFC 3065. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC5065
- Published
- August 2007
- Authors
- P. Traina; D. McPherson; J. Scudder
- Status
- DRAFT STANDARD
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- rtg
- Pages
- 14
- Also known as
- —
Topics
Standards lineage
This document is one revision in a chain of 3 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.
- RFC 1965 (1996)
- RFC 3065 (2001)
- RFC 5065 (2007)
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Related documents
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- RFC 5004Avoid BGP Best Path Transitions from One External to AnotherCurrent
September 2007
- RFC 4893BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number SpaceObsoleted
May 2007
- RFC 5292Address-Prefix-Based Outbound Route Filter for BGP-4Current
August 2008
- RFC 4781Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP with MPLSCurrent
January 2007
- RFC 4761Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) Using BGP for Auto-Discovery and SignalingUpdated
January 2007
- RFC 4760Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4Updated
January 2007
- RFC 4724Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGPUpdated
January 2007
- RFC 4659BGP-MPLS IP Virtual Private Network (VPN) Extension for IPv6 VPNCurrent
September 2006
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