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        RFC 1774:

        Title:      BGP-4 Protocol Analysis
        Author:     P. Traina, Editor
        Date:       March 1995
        Mailbox:    pst@cisco.com
        Pages:      10
        Characters: 23,823
        Updates/Obsoletes:  none

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1774.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 version 4 (BGP-4). This report summarizes
the key features of BGP, and analyzes the protocol with respect to
scaling and performance.  This RFC is a product of the Inter-Domain
Routing Working Group of the IETF.

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