Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet

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 ([email protected]). We like to explicitly thank Bob Braden (ISI) for the review of the previous version of this document. John Moy (Proteon) contributed Section 7 "Required set of supported routing policies". Scott Brim (Cornell University) contributed the basis for Section 8 "Interaction with other exterior routing protocols". Parts of the Introduction were taken almost verbatim from [3]. We would like to acknowledge Dan Long (NEARNET) and Tony Li (cisco Systems) for their review and comments on the current version of the document.