[165846] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: 32-bit ASN acceptance by ISPs in ARIN region
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. Benjamin Kessler)
Mon Sep 23 10:36:57 2013
From: "R. Benjamin Kessler" <Ben.Kessler@zenetra.com>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>, Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:30:50 +0000
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Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
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I'd like to see an option for a larger private ASN block - 1K of private AS=
Ns can be quite a pain in really large organizations.
I have seen others mention this in the past - e.g.=20
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/cisco/nsp/158375
But apparently there's not enough traction to cause movement.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:nick@foobar.org]=20
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 10:22 AM
To: Geoff Huston
Cc: nanog@nanog.org list
Subject: Re: 32-bit ASN acceptance by ISPs in ARIN region
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=20
> relates to the size of the payload field here, as distinct from the=20
> 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 >=3D your cust=
omer asn bitfield size is a rather useful feature.
There's also a serious vendor support problem at the moment.
Nick
