RFC 1771 · DRAFT STANDARD · 1995
SUN · 14 JUN 2026
A Border Gateway Protocol 4
Overview
RFC 1771, “A Border Gateway Protocol 4”, is a Draft Standard document published in March 1995 by Y. Rekhter, T. Li. It obsoletes RFC 1654. It has been obsoleted by RFC 4271 — refer to the newer document for the authoritative version. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document, together with its companion document, "Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet", define an inter-autonomous system routing protocol for the Internet. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
What “Draft Standard” means
A historical maturity level (retired in 2011) that sat between Proposed Standard and Internet Standard and required multiple interoperable implementations.
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Relationships to other RFCs
Other RFCs from 1995
- RFC 1770 IPv4 Option for Sender Directed Multi-Destination Delivery
- RFC 1772 Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet
- RFC 1769 Simple Network Time Protocol
- RFC 1773 Experience with the BGP-4 protocol
- RFC 1768 Host Group Extensions for CLNP Multicasting
- RFC 1774 BGP-4 Protocol Analysis
- RFC 1767 MIME Encapsulation of EDI Objects
- RFC 1775 To Be "On" the Internet