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Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Charter
Chair(s)
- Yakov Rekhter <yakov@watson.ibm.com>
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Description of Working Group
Develop the BGP protocol and BGP technical usage within the Internet,
continuing the current work of the Interconnectivity Working Group in
this regard.
Goals and Milestones
- Ongoing
- Coordinate the deployment of BGP in conformance with the BGP usage document in a manner that promotes sound engineering and an open competitive environment. Take into account the interests of the various backbone and mid-level networks, the various vendors, and the user community.
- Done
- Complete development of Version 2 of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
- Done
- Develop a mature BGP technical usage document that allows us to build Inter-AS routing structures using the BGP protocol.
- Done
- Develop a MIB for BGP Version 3.
- Done
- Work with the Security Area to enhance the provision for security in BGP.
- Done
- Develop a BGP usage document describing how BGP can be used as part of a network monitoring strategy.
- Done
- Post an Internet-Draft specifying multicast extensions to BGP.
- Done
- Post the specfication of BGP 4 as an Internet-Draft.
- Done
- Post an Internet-Draft specifying a MIB for BGP Version 4.
- Jan 1993
- Submit the multicast extensions to BGP to the IESG as a Proposed Standard.
- Jan 1993
- Submit the specification for BGP Version 4 to the IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
- Jan 1993
- Submit the BGP Version 4 MIB to the IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
NOTE: The Internet-Draft(s) listed below may have been deleted
since they are only good for six months.
Internet-Drafts
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``A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)'', 05/04/1994, Y. Rekhter, T. Li
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``Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fourth Version of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP-4)'', 05/06/1994, S. Willis, J. Burruss, J. Chu
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``BGP4/IDRP for IP---OSPF Interaction'', 12/14/1993, K. Varadhan, S. Hares, Y. Rekhter
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``Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet'', 04/15/1994, Y. Rekhter, P. Gross
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``BGP-4 protocol document roadmap and implementation experience'', 01/03/1994, P. Traina
Request for Comments