RFC 6793: BGP Support for Four-Octet Autonomous System (AS) Number Space
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
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]
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC6793
- Published
- December 2012
- Authors
- Q. Vohra; E. Chen
- Status
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- rtg
- Pages
- 12
- Also known as
- —
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