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draft-ietf-idr-rfc2842bis



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        RFC 3392
                         
        Title:      Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
        Author(s):  R. Chandra, J. Scudder
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       November 2002
        Mailbox:    rchandra@redback.com, jgs@cisco.com
        Pages:      6
        Characters: 9885
        Obsoletes:  2842
                         
        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-idr-rfc2842bis-02.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3392.txt


This document defines a new Optional Parameter, called Capabilities,
that is expected to facilitate the introduction of new capabilities in
the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) by providing graceful capability
advertisement without requiring that BGP peering be terminated. 

This document is a product of the Inter-Domain Routing Working Group
of the IETF.

This is now a Draft Standard Protocol.

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