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	RFC 1265:

        Title:      BGP Protocol Analysis    
	Author:     Y. Rekhter, Editor
	Mailbox:    yakov@watson.ibm.com
	Pages:      8
	Characters: 20,728
	Obsoletes/Updates: none

		pathname: rfc/rfc1265.txt


The purpose of this report is to document how the requirements for
advancing a routing protocol to Draft Standard have been satisfied by
the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). This report summarizes the key
feature of BGP, and analyzes the protocol with respect to scaling and
performance. This is the first of two reports on the BGP protocol.
The BGP protocol has been developed by the BGP Working Group of the
Internet Engineering Task Force.  Please send comments to
iwg@rice.edu.

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Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute