// Copyright (c) 2005 DMTF.  All rights reserved.
// <change cr="ArchCR00066.004" type="add">Add UmlPackagePath
// qualifier values to CIM Schema.</change>
// ==================================================================
//  CIM_Confederation
// ==================================================================
   [Association, UMLPackagePath ( "CIM::Network::BGP" ), Aggregation,
    Composition, Version ( "2.7.0" ), Description (
       "The BGP speakers in an AS are required to be fully meshed. "
       "This can lead to a huge number of TCP connections per router. "
       "One way to reduce the peering requirements is to use a "
       "confederation. A confederation effectively partitions one AS "
       "into a group of 'sub-ASs'. This enables all of the benefits of "
       "IBGP to be applied inside the confederation, while enabling "
       "EBGP to be run between each confederation. It also enables "
       "certain BGP attribute values to be preserved between "
       "confederations. However, to the outside world, the AS with its "
       "confederations appear to be a single AS.")]
class CIM_Confederation : CIM_SystemComponent {

      [Aggregate, Override ( "GroupComponent" ), Max ( 1 ), 
       Description (
          "The AutonomousSystem that contains the confederations.")]
   CIM_AutonomousSystem REF GroupComponent;

      [Override ( "PartComponent" ), Description (
          "The Confederation within the AutonomousSystem.")]
   CIM_AutonomousSystem REF PartComponent;

      [Description (
          "A unique identifier of the AutonomousSystem that contains "
          "the confederations.")]
   uint32 ParentASNumber;

      [Description (
          "A unique identifier of the Confederation within the "
          "AutonomousSystem.")]
   uint32 ChildASNumber;
};