{"draft":"draft-ietf-idr-bgp-confed-rfc1965bis-01","doc_id":"RFC3065","title":" Autonomous System Confederations for BGP ","authors":["P. Traina","D. McPherson","J. Scudder"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"11","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Inter-Domain Routing","abstract":" This document describes an extension to BGP which 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.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"January 2001","keywords":["BGP-ASC","Autonomous System Confederations","border gateway protocol"],"obsoletes":["RFC1965"],"obsoleted_by":["RFC5065"],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC3065","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc3065"}