Inter-Domain Routing Working Group Paul Traina INTERNET DRAFT cisco Systems May 13, 1996 BGP-4 Requirement Satisfaction Report Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This document is an Internet Draft. Internet Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its Areas, and its Working Groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet Drafts. Internet Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months. Internet Drafts may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is not appropriate to use Internet Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as a "working draft" or "work in progress". Introduction The purpose of this memo is to document how the requirements for advancing a routing protocol to Full Standard have been satisfied by Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGP-4) (and create needless busywork). This report provides a roadmap to all information necessary to move BGP-4 to Standard. This is the first of two final reports on the BGP protocol. As required by the Internet Activities Board (IAB) and the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), the second report will present additional knowledge and understanding gained in the time when the protocol was mada a Draft standard and when it was submitted for Standard. The remaining sections of this memo document how BGP satisfies General Requirements specified in Section 3.0, as well as Requirements for Standard specified in Section 6.0 of the "Internet Routing Protocol Standardization Criteria" document [1]. Please send comments to bgp@ans.net. Expiration Date December 1996 [Page 1] INTERNET DRAFT May 1996 Documentation BGP is an inter-autonomous system routing protocol designed for TCP/IP internets. Version 4 of the BGP protocol (BGP-4) specification has been submitted as [2]. The MIB specification for BGP-4 has been submitted as [3]. The applicability document for BGP-4 has been submitted as [4]. Implementation experience, operational experience, compatibility, migration and testing issues are documented in [5], [6], and [7]. Implementations There are multiple independantly written interoperable implementations of BGP-4 currently available. This section gives a brief overview of the implementations that are currently used in the operational Internet. They are: - cisco Systems, Inc. - gated consortium - 3COM - Bay Networks (Wellfleet) - Proteon - Rainbow-Bridge - Telebit (DK) Acknowledgments The BGP protocol has been developed by the IDR (formerly BGP) Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force. The group would like to express deepest thanks to Yakov Rekhter and Sue Hares, co-chairs of the IDR working group. I'd also like to explicitly thank Yakov Rekhter for the review of this document as well as constructive and valuable comments. This report is in part based on the initial work of Peter Lothberg (Ebone), Andrew Partan (Alternet), Sean Doran (Sprint), Tony Bates (MCI), and several others. Details of their work were presented at the Twenti-fifth and Twenti-seventh IETF meetings and are available from the IETF proceedings. Expiration Date December 1996 [Page 2] INTERNET DRAFT May 1996 Author's Address: Paul Traina cisco Systems, Inc. 170 W. Tasman Dr. San Jose, CA 95134 pst@cisco.com References [1] RFC1264 Hinden, R., "Internet Routing Protocol Standardization Criteria", October 1991. [2] draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-02.txt Rekhter, Y., and Li, T., "A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)", January 1996. [3] RFC1657 S. Willis, J. Burruss, J. Chu, "Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fourth Version of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP-4) using SMIv2", July 1994. [4] RFC1772 Rekhter, Y., and P. Gross, Editors, "Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet", March 1995. [5] RFC1773 Traina P., "Experience with the BGP-4 protocol", March 1995. [6] RFC1774 Traina P., "BGP-4 Protocol Analysis", March 1995. [7] RFC1656 Traina P., "BGP-4 Implementation Expereience", July 1994. Expiration Date March 1996 [Page 3]