A BGP speaker that supports 4-octet Autonomous System numbers SHOULD
advertise this to its peers using the BGP Capability Advertisements.
A BGP speaker that advertises such capability to a particular peer,
and receives from that peer the advertisement of such capability MUST
encode Autonomous System numbers as 4-octet entities in both the
AS_PATH and the AGGREGATOR attributes in the updates it sends to the
peer, and MUST assume that these attributes in the updates received
from the peer encode Autonomous System numbers as 4-octet entities.
advertise this to its peers using the BGP Capability Advertisements.
A BGP speaker that advertises such capability to a particular peer,
and receives from that peer the advertisement of such capability MUST
encode Autonomous System numbers as 4-octet entities in both the
AS_PATH and the AGGREGATOR attributes in the updates it sends to the
peer, and MUST assume that these attributes in the updates received
from the peer encode Autonomous System numbers as 4-octet entities.