RFC 6793

"BGP Support for Four-Octet Autonomous System (AS) Number Space", December 2012

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6793.txt
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Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 4893

Updates:

RFC 4271

Authors:

Q. Vohra
E. Chen

Stream:

IETF

Source:

idr (rtg)

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Abstract

The Autonomous System number is encoded as a two-octet entity in the base BGP specification. This document describes extensions to BGP to carry the Autonomous System numbers as four-octet entities. This document obsoletes RFC 4893 and updates RFC 4271. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.