Technical Summary
This document describes the use and design of a method known as
"Route Reflection" to alleviate the the need for "full mesh" IBGP.
Route Reflection relaxes the rule that a route learned via IBGP
must not be sent to another IBGP peer, for designated peers
called "Route Reflectors". It then replaces the full mesh among
IBGP speakers with a single peering to a Route Reflector.
This update adds an update to the BGP Decision Process.
Working Group Summary
There was working group consensus to advance this
specification to Draft Standard.
Protocol Quality
Bill Fenner reviewed this specification for the IESG. There are
several known implementations, as described in the accompanying
implementation report, available at the following URL:
http://www.ietf.org/IESG/Implementations/RFC2796-implementations.txt