This value indicates whether or not the peer is a member of the same confederation that this router is in. This field can only be set to true if the field bgpRmEntConfederationId is non-zero. Note that the value should be set to true even if the peer is in the same member AS that this router is in. Member AS numbers are kept internal to the confederation, so it is possible for a member AS number to be the same as the AS number of a neighbor outside the confederation, and so it is not possible to determine whether a peer is in this confederation just by examining the peer's AS number. The value of this field resolves any ambiguity. This field can be changed at any time. However, if the field is changed while the peer is admin_status UP, the change will only take effect after the peer has been cycled admin_status DOWN and then UP, thus forcing the peer session to be restarted. In this case, until the peer is set admin_status DOWN, the peer will be marked as out of date (as reported by the config_state field in the AMB_BGP_PEER_STATUS row for the peer).