[rfc-dist] RFC 4893 on BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number Space

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        RFC 4893

        Title:      BGP Support for Four-octet AS 
                    Number Space 
        Author:     Q. Vohra, E. Chen
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       May 2007
        Mailbox:    quaizar.vohra at gmail.com, 
                    enkechen at cisco.com
        Pages:      10
        Characters: 21520
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-idr-as4bytes-13.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4893.txt

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]

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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