RFC 6952 · INFORMATIONAL · 2013

Analysis of BGP, LDP, PCEP, and MSDP Issues According to the Keying and Authentication for Routing Protocols Design Guide

Overview

RFC 6952, “Analysis of BGP, LDP, PCEP, and MSDP Issues According to the Keying and Authentication for Routing Protocols Design Guide”, is an Informational document published in May 2013 by M. Jethanandani, K. Patel, L. Zheng. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document analyzes TCP-based routing protocols, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the Label Distribution Protocol (LDP), the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP), and the Multicast Source Distribution Protocol (MSDP), according to guidelines set forth in Section 4.2 of "Keying and Authentication for Routing Protocols Design Guidelines", RFC 6518.

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