[75953] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 16 vs 32 bit ASNs [Re: BBC does IPv6 ;) (Was: large multi-site enterprises and PI]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cliff Albert)
Mon Nov 29 06:12:15 2004
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:11:47 +0100
From: Cliff Albert <cliff@oisec.net>
To: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0411290840130.26365@netcore.fi>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 08:45:17AM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
> >Well, how many AS numbers would you like to give out? 30000 in 20 years?
> >100k a year? A million in a month? 32 bits will then give you 2863
> >millennia, 429 centuries or 357 years, respectively.
>
> ASN exhaustion is IMHO just a symptom of the real problem. Enlarging
> the ASN space does not cure the disease, just makes it worse.
And this is exactly my point.
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Cliff Albert <cliff@oisec.net>
