[165845] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 32-bit ASN acceptance by ISPs in ARIN region
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Mon Sep 23 10:22:15 2013
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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:21:45 +0100
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>
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On 23/09/2013 15:14, Geoff Huston wrote:
> I'm sorry, but I'm still confused, as I see your comment as one that relates to the
> size of the payload field here, as distinct from the support for 32 bit AS numbers
> per se.
hence my original comment about being usable on nontrivial transit
networks, where having the size of the community local administrator >=
your customer asn bitfield size is a rather useful feature.
There's also a serious vendor support problem at the moment.
Nick
