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        RFC 1268:

        Title:      Application of the Border Gateway Protocol
                    in the Internet
	Author:     Y. Rekhter & P. Gross, Editors
	Mailbox:    yakov@watson.ibm.com, pgross@NIS.ANS.NET
	Pages:      13    
	Characters: 31,102
	Obsoletes:  RFC 1164

		pathname: rfc/rfc1268.txt


This document, together with its companion document, "A Border Gateway
Protocol (BGP-3)", define an inter-autonomous system routing protocol
for the Internet.  "A Border Gateway Protocol (BGP-3)" defines the BGP
protocol specification, and this document describes the usage of the
BGP in the Internet.  This protocol is being developed by the Border
Gateway Protocol Working Group (BGP) of the Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF).  Please send comments to iwg@rice.edu.

This RFC specifies an IAB Draft Standard Protocol for the Internet
community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.
Please refer to the current edition of the "IAB Official Protocol
Standards" for the standardization state and status of this protocol.
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Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute