RFC 4277 · INFORMATIONAL · 2006

Experience with the BGP-4 Protocol

Overview

RFC 4277, “Experience with the BGP-4 Protocol”, is an Informational document published in January 2006 by D. McPherson, K. Patel. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

The purpose of this memo is to document how the requirements for publication of a routing protocol as an Internet Draft Standard have been satisfied by Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGP-4).

This report satisfies the requirement for "the second report", as described in Section 6.0 of RFC 1264. In order to fulfill the requirement, this report augments RFC 1773 and describes additional knowledge and understanding gained in the time between when the protocol was made a Draft Standard and when it was submitted for Standard. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

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Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.

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