Network Working Group
Request for Comments: 1772
Obsoletes: 1655
Category: Standards Track
Y. Rekhter
T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corp.
P. Gross
MCI
Editors
March 1995
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 (bgp@ans.net).
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
This document was originally published as RFC 1164 in June 1990,
jointly authored by Jeffrey C. Honig (Cornell University), Dave Katz
(MERIT), Matt Mathis (PSC), Yakov Rekhter (IBM), and Jessica Yu
(MERIT).
The following also made key contributions to RFC 1164 -- Guy Almes
(ANS, then at Rice University), Kirk Lougheed (cisco Systems), Hans-
Werner Braun (SDSC, then at MERIT), and Sue Hares (MERIT).
We like to explicitly thank Bob Braden (ISI) for the review of the
previous version of this document.
This updated version of the document is the product of the IETF BGP
Working Group with Phill Gross (MCI) and Yakov Rekhter (IBM) as
editors.
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".
Most of the text in Section 9 was contributed by Gerry Meyer
(Spider).
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.
The work of Yakov Rekhter was supported in part by the National
Science Foundation under Grant Number NCR-9219216.
