Fwd: Protocol Action: Autonomous System Confederations for BGP to Proposed Standard

[Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

Is this relevant to the AROOT effort?
my BGP practical knowledge is not big enough to grok the link....


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>From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
>Subject: Protocol Action: Autonomous System Confederations for BGP to
>         Proposed Standard
>Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 07:04:17 -0500
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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.
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>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.

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