@misc{rfc6286, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 6286, howpublished = {RFC 6286}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC6286}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6286}, author = {Enke Chen and Jenny Yuan}, title = {{Autonomous-System-Wide Unique BGP Identifier for BGP-4}}, pagetotal = 4, year = 2011, month = jun, abstract = {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{]}}, }