[82901] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: as numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Sun Jul 31 10:52:19 2005
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20050731012330.067e0840@mail.tellurian.com>
Cc: Geoff Huston <cidr-report@potaroo.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:51:16 -0400
To: Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 31 Jul 2005, at 01:23, Robert Boyle wrote:
> I agree that implementation sooner rather than later is a good idea,
> but all of us already have a 2-Byte AS so although we care in theory
> and believe it is a good idea, we don't _really_ care as much as the
> first guy who gets a 4-Byte AS will.
The first guy who gets a 4-byte AS number is going to be one of our
customers. If we want to be able to talk BGP with him, we need 4-byte
AS number support in our edge routers.
ISPs who have an interest in continuing to win transit customers past
2008/2009 should be interested in getting 4-byte AS number support,
regardless of how many 2-byte AS numbers they already have. ISPs who
plan to stop getting new customers don't need to bother :-)
Joe
