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RFC 6793
Title: BGP Support for Four-Octet Autonomous
System (AS) Number Space
Author: Q. Vohra, E. Chen
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: December 2012
Mailbox: [email protected],
[email protected]
Pages: 12
Characters: 26366
Obsoletes: RFC4893
Updates: RFC4271
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-idr-rfc4893bis-07.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6793.txt
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]
This document is a product of the Inter-Domain Routing Working Group of the
IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.
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