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The '''Exterior Gateway Protocol''' ('''EGP''') was a [[Routing protocol|routing protocol]] used to connect different [[Autonomous system (Internet)|autonomous systems]] on the [[Internet]] from the mid-1980s until the mid-1990s, when it was replaced by [[Border Gateway Protocol]] (BGP).

==History==
EGP was developed by Bolt, Beranek and Newman in the early 1980s. It was first described in RFC 827<ref name="rfc827">{{cite IETF |title= Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP)|rfc=827 |last=Rosen |first=Eric |date= October 1982 |publisher=[[Organization:Internet Engineering Task Force|IETF]] |access-date= 2 Sep 2020 |doi=10.17487/RFC0827 }}</ref> and formally specified in RFC 904.<ref name="rfc904">{{cite IETF |title= Exterior Gateway Protocol Formal Specification|rfc=904 |last=Mills |first=David |date= April 1984 |publisher=[[Organization:Internet Engineering Task Force|IETF]] |access-date= 2 Sep 2020 |doi=10.17487/RFC0904 }}</ref>

RFC 1772 outlined a migration path from EGP to BGP.<ref name="rfc1772">{{cite IETF |title= Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet|rfc=1772 |last1=Rekhter |first1=Yakov|last2=Gross |first2=Phill |date= March 1995|publisher=[[Organization:Internet Engineering Task Force|IETF]] |access-date= 2 Sep 2020 |doi=10.17487/RFC1772 }}</ref>

==References==
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==See also==
* [[Interior gateway protocol]]

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[[Category:Internet Standards]]
[[Category:Routing protocols]]



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