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Autonomous System Confederations for BGP
RFC 5065

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2026-05-20
(System) Changed metadata: changed keywords to '['border gateway protocol', 'tcp/ip', 'full mesh']' from '[]'
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "J. Scudder": changed name from "John Scudder" to "J. Scudder", changed order from "0" to "3"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "D. McPherson": changed name from "Danny McPherson" to "D. McPherson", changed order from "1" to "2"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "P. Traina": changed name from "Paul Traina" to "P. Traina", changed order from "-1" to "1"
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2020-01-21
(System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (added Verified Errata tag)
2018-12-20
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to 'The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is an inter-autonomous system routing protocol designed for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to 'The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is an inter-autonomous system routing protocol designed for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networks. BGP requires that all BGP speakers within a single autonomous system (AS) must be fully meshed. This represents a serious scaling problem that has been well documented in a number of proposals.

This document describes an extension to BGP that may be used to create a confederation of autonomous systems that is represented as a single autonomous system to BGP peers external to the confederation, thereby removing the "full mesh" requirement. The intention of this extension is to aid in policy administration and reduce the management complexity of maintaining a large autonomous system.

This document obsoletes RFC 3065. [STANDARDS-TRACK]')
2017-05-16
(System) Changed document authors from "John Scudder, Danny McPherson" to "John Scudder, Danny McPherson, Paul Traina"
2015-10-14
(System) Notify list changed from idr-chairs@ietf.org to (None)
2007-08-10
Amy Vezza State Changes to RFC Published from RFC Ed Queue by Amy Vezza
2007-08-10
Amy Vezza [Note]: 'RFC 5065' added by Amy Vezza
2007-08-07
(System) RFC published