RFC 9774: Deprecation of AS_SET and AS_CONFED_SET in BGP

BCP 172 (i.e., RFC 6472) recommends not using AS_SET and AS_CONFED_SET AS_PATH segment types in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). This document advances that…

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Outgoing relationships (15 related RFCs)

Updates, Normative reference — RFC 4271: A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
Updates, Normative reference — RFC 5065: Autonomous System Confederations for BGP
Obsoletes — RFC 6472: Recommendation for Not Using AS_SET and AS_CONFED_SET in BGP
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 8174: Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words
Normative reference — RFC 4632: Classless Inter-domain Routing (CIDR): The Internet Address Assignment and Aggregation Plan
Normative reference — RFC 7606: Revised Error Handling for BGP UPDATE Messages
Normative reference — RFC 6793: BGP Support for Four-Octet Autonomous System (AS) Number Space
Informative reference — RFC 6480: An Infrastructure to Support Secure Internet Routing
Informative reference — RFC 3779: X.509 Extensions for IP Addresses and AS Identifiers
Informative reference — RFC 6811: BGP Prefix Origin Validation
Informative reference — RFC 8205: BGPsec Protocol Specification
Informative reference — RFC 6907: Use Cases and Interpretations of Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Objects for Issuers and Relying Parties
Informative reference — RFC 9319: The Use of maxLength in the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI)
Informative reference — RFC 9582: A Profile for Route Origin Authorizations (ROAs)