Protocol Action: Autonomous System Confederations for BGP to Proposed Standard
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Subject: Protocol Action: Autonomous System Confederations for BGP to Proposed Standard
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The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'Autonomous System Confederations for BGP' <draft-ietf-idr-bgp-confed-rfc1965bis-01.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This document is the product of the Inter-Domain Routing Working Group. The IESG contact persons are David Oran and Rob Coltun. Technical Summary The Border Gateway Protocol is an inter-autonomous system routing protocol designed for TCP/IP networks. BGP requires that all BGP speakers within a single 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 which 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 is a revision of RFC 1965 and includes editorial changes, clarifications and corrections based on the deployment experience with BGP Confederations. Working Group Summary The working group supported this document and no issues were raised during IETF Last-Call. Protocol Quality Rob Coltun has reviewed the spec for the IESG. There are multiple interoperable implementations.