[rfc-dist] RFC 5492 on Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4

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        RFC 5492

        Title:      Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4 
        Author:     J. Scudder, R. Chandra
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       February 2009
        Mailbox:    jgs at juniper.net, 
                    rchandra at sonoasystems.com
        Pages:      7
        Characters: 13581
        Obsoletes:  RFC3392

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-idr-rfc3392bis-05.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5492.txt

This document defines an Optional Parameter, called Capabilities,
that is expected to facilitate the introduction of new capabilities
in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) by providing graceful capability
advertisement without requiring that BGP peering be terminated.

This document obsoletes RFC 3392.  [STANDARDS TRACK]

This document is a product of the Inter-Domain Routing Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Draft Standard Protocol.

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