RFC 890 · UNKNOWN · 1984

Exterior Gateway Protocol implementation schedule

Overview

RFC 890, “Exterior Gateway Protocol implementation schedule”, is an Unknown document published in February 1984 by J. Postel. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This memo is a policy statement on the implementation of the Exterior Gateway Protocol in the Internet. This is an official policy statement of ICCB and DARPA. After 1-Aug-84 there shall be no dumb gateways in the Internet. Every gateway must be a member of some autonomous system. Some gateway of each autonomous system must exchange routing information with some gateway of the core autonomous system using the Exterior Gateway Protocol.

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