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       Title     : Destination Preference Attribute for BGP                
       Author(s) : E. Chen, T. Bates
       Filename  : draft-ietf-idr-bgp-dpa-04.txt
       Pages     : 5
       Date      : 01/29/1996

The Border Gateway Protocol [1] is an inter-autonomous system routing 
protocol designed for TCP/IP internets.   
                                 
This document describes a new BGP path attribute termed "Destination 
Preference Attribute" (DPA) which can be used by a single autonomous system
(AS) to specify globally transitive metrics in its routing announcement via
BGP.  The metric can then be used by upstream BGP speakers to favor certain
path for return traffic.  The application of this attribute includes 
facilitating the implementation of symmetric routing and load sharing in 
the multi-provider Internet.                                               

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