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<reference anchor='RFC1965'>

<front>
<title>Autonomous System Confederations for BGP</title>
<author initials='P.' surname='Traina' fullname='Paul Traina'>
<organization>cisco Systems, Inc.</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>170 W. Tasman Dr.</street>
<city>San Jose</city>
<region>CA</region>
<code>95134</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<email>pst@cisco.com</email></address></author>
<date month='June' year='1996' />
<abstract>
<t>Border Gateway Protocolis an inter-autonomous system routing protocol designed for TCP/IP networks.</t>
<t>This document describes an extension to BGP which may be used to create a confederation of autonomous systems which is represented as one single autonomous system to BGP peers external to the confederation.</t>
<t>The intention of this extension is to aid in policy administration and reduce the management complexity of maintaining a large autonomous system.</t>
<t>The extension this document describes is widely deployed in the Internet today.</t></abstract></front>

<seriesInfo name='RFC' value='1965' />
</reference>
