File formats:

Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Obsoleted by:

RFC 6793

Authors:

Q. Vohra
E. Chen

Stream:

IETF

Source:

idr (rtg)

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DOI:  10.17487/RFC4893

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Abstract

Currently the Autonomous System (AS) number is encoded as a two-octet entity in BGP. This document describes extensions to BGP to carry the Autonomous System number as a four-octet entity. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.