WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) - The Federal

Communications Commission on Thursday voted to advance a

proposal to boost the security of information routed across the

internet after government agencies said a Chinese carrier had

misrouted traffic.

The FCC since 2022 has been studying vulnerabilities that it

says threaten the security and integrity of the Border Gateway

Protocol (BGP), central to the internet's global information

routing system. The proposal would require broadband providers

to create BGP security plans and file reports on risk mitigation

progress. FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said Thursday U.S.

agencies had recently publicly disclosed that China Telecom

used BGP vulnerabilities "to misroute United States

internet traffic on at least six occasions."