[13414] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: moving to IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip Vandry)
Wed Nov 5 15:58:30 1997
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 15:35:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Phillip Vandry <vandry@Mlink.NET>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 03 Nov 1997 23:14:22 EST."
<19971103231422.54511@Mars.Mcs.Net>
> What this leads to is a registry system (one or more) for the 32-bit
> suffixes in which you form "colloquial" memberships, ensuring uniqueness
> among competing ASNs *as long as both ASNs subscribe to the same registry*.
>
> But membership is VOLUNTARY; you give up nothing except possibly the ability
> to allow people to join your ASN without renumbering if you don't belong.
>
> Right now membership in these registries is MANDATORY; the network breaks if
> you choose random 32-bit integers and masks and announce them. We can fix
> this if we think for more than 2 nanoseconds before doing something stupid
> (again).
>
> If you want to connect to an ASN which is *NOT* part of your colloquial
> group, that's fine too -- but you might need to renumber in that case (or
> perhaps not - 32 bits is still quite large).
draft-odell-8+8-00.txt (expired) suggests something not so different from
this.
-Phil
