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RFC 6286: Autonomous-System-Wide Unique BGP Identifier for BGP-4

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To accommodate situations where the current requirements for the BGP Identifier are not met, this document relaxes the definition of the BGP Identifier to be a 4-octet, unsigned, non-zero integer and relaxes the "uniqueness" requirement so that only Autonomous-System-wide (AS-wide) uniqueness of the BGP Identifiers is required. These revisions to the base BGP specification do not introduce any backward compatibility issues. This document updates RFC 4271. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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Document ID
RFC6286
Published
June 2011
Authors
E. Chen; J. Yuan
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
rtg
Pages
4
Also known as
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Updates:
RFC 4271

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