[165835] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 32-bit ASN acceptance by ISPs in ARIN region
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoff Huston)
Mon Sep 23 09:29:18 2013
From: Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>
In-Reply-To: <52401178.3000500@foobar.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 23:28:58 +1000
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 23/09/2013, at 8:01 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> On 23/09/2013 00:15, John Curran wrote:
>> Not being able to use 32-bit ASNs in your network and support systems =
will =20
>> inevitably lead to confusion for those customers who are assigned =
them.
>=20
> I look forward to the day when we have proper 32 bit BGP community =
support
> and ASN32s finally become usable on nontrivial networks.
>=20
Is there some reference that describes the problems with the use of =
RFC5668? I was not aware
that there were residual issues here.
regards,
Geoff
