2. Scalability
2.1 Introduction
Since the specification of the BGP IV routing protocol in 1995 [RFC 1771], the Internet network has grown considerably, both in terms of the number of users and public IP networks interconnected via BGP, and in terms of the number of full routes on the Internet (Internet full routing):
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figure 15 shows the evolution of the number of IPv4 addresses on the Internet. The unit is the number of "/8" prefixes, which contain 2^24 (16.7 million) individual addresses. As a first approximation, this can be taken to represent the evolution of the number of machines connected to the Internet;
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Websites
IETF http://www.ietf.org
IANA http://www.iana.org
POTAROO, Geoff Huston http://bgp.potaroo.net/
Standards and norms
- A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4), REKHTER (Y.), LI (T.) - RFC 1771 - 03-95
- A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4), REKHTER (Y.), LI (T.), MARES (S.) - RFC 4271 - 01-06
- BGP/MPLS VPNs, ROSEN (E.), REKHTER (Y.) - RFC 2547 - 03-99
- BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), ROSEN (E.), REKHTER (Y.) - RFC 4364 - 02-06
- BGP Support for four-octet AS number space, VOHRA (Q.), CHEN (E.) - RFC 4893...
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