[143435] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP support for use of 4-byte ASNs in peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Loch)
Tue Aug 9 23:43:03 2011
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:42:18 -0400
From: Kevin Loch <kloch@kl.net>
To: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
In-Reply-To: <02748298-1F7D-42EB-82EC-81D5FA7C22F2@arin.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
John Curran wrote:
> Folks -
>
> Is there a public list somewhere of service providers that do not support 4-byte
> autonomous system numbers when peering? (if not, should there be one?)
>
> At ARIN, we are still having parties returning 4-byte ASN's (seeking 2-byte instead),
> indicating that the 4-byte ones are not sufficiently accepted in peering to be usable.
> This is obviously a less than desirable situation, and it appears that it is not trending
> towards resolution at this time.
Perhaps you meant to send this to c-nsp and re-worded it slightly?
- Kevin
