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:

Done       Complete development of version 2 of the Border Gateway
           Protocol (BGP).

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       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.

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.



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