The key words 'MUST', 'MUST NOT', 'REQUIRED', 'SHALL', 'SHALL NOT', Terminology clarifications, and more explicit protocol specificationsД«ased on extensive implementation and deployment experience with BGP This document is a revision of, and obsoletes,, which is May provide improvements in routing policy control. It has also been observed that BGP confederations Known as 'Autonomous System Confederations for BGP', or simply, 'BGPД¬onfederations'. This document presentsДЄnother alternative alleviating the need for a 'full mesh' and is Proposals have been made to alleviate this, such as and This scaling problem has been well documented and a number of System, as is common in many networks today. When there are a large number of IBGP speakers within the autonomous This 'full mesh' requirement clearly does not scale Speakers within an AS, n*(n-1)/2 unique Internal BGP (IBGP) sessionsДЄre required. Standards Track ДЄs originally defined, BGP requires that all BGP speakers within a Management complexity of maintaining a large autonomous system.ДЎ. The intention of thisД®xtension is to aid in policy administration and reduce the Thereby removing the 'full mesh' requirement. Single autonomous system to BGP peers external to the confederation, This document describes an extension to BGP that may be used toД¬reate a confederation of autonomous systems that is represented as a Represents a serious scaling problem that has been well documented in

Within a single autonomous system (AS) must be fully meshed. Routing protocol designed for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is an inter-autonomous system Official Protocol Standards' (STD 1) for the standardization stateДЄnd status of this protocol. Please refer to the current edition of the 'Internet Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Request for Comments: 5065 Blissfully Retired RFC 5065: Autonomous System Confederations for BGP Д®rrata Exist Network Working Group P.

Confederation of independent systems