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PROPOSED STANDARD

Authors:

E. Jasinska
N. Hilliard
R. Raszuk
N. Bakker

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IETF

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idr (rtg)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7947

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Abstract

This document outlines a specification for multilateralinterconnections at Internet Exchange Points (IXPs). Multilateralinterconnection is a method of exchanging routing information amongthree or more External BGP (EBGP) speakers using a singleintermediate broker system, referred to as a route server. Routeservers are typically used on shared access media networks, such asIXPs, to facilitate simplified interconnection among multipleInternet routers.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.