[112830] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Redundant AS's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James R. Cutler)
Fri Mar 20 14:33:33 2009
From: "James R. Cutler" <james.cutler@consultant.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <49C3C952.4050808@verizonbusiness.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:33:23 -0400
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What this quote means is that it is 65536 times more cost-effective to
deploy 4 byte ASN than to mess with legacy assignments.
On Mar 20, 2009, at 12:50 PM, Heather Schiller wrote:
> I tend to agree w/ Randy.. it's time and money better spent focusing
> our efforts on supporting 4byte ASN (and v6 for that matter)
> Attempts at recovering 2byte ASN's (and v4 space..) are short term
> solutions, at best extend the 'free pool' for a short and
> unpredictable period of time, while incurring more headache,
> expense, and arguing, than working toward supporting the inevitable.
James R. Cutler
james.cutler@consultant.com
