{"draft":"draft-ietf-idr-bgp-identifier-14","doc_id":"RFC6286","title":"Autonomous-System-Wide Unique BGP Identifier for BGP-4","authors":["E. Chen","J. Yuan"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"4","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Inter-Domain Routing","abstract":"To accommodate situations where the current requirements for the BGP\r\nIdentifier are not met, this document relaxes the definition of the\r\nBGP Identifier to be a 4-octet, unsigned, non-zero integer and relaxes\r\nthe \"uniqueness\" requirement so that only Autonomous-System-wide (AS-wide)\r\nuniqueness of the BGP Identifiers is required.  These revisions to the\r\nbase BGP specification do not introduce any backward compatibility\r\nissues.   This document updates RFC 4271.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"June 2011","keywords":["[--------]"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":["RFC4271"],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC6286","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc6286"}