[82927] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: as numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Mon Aug 1 06:18:58 2005
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 11:15:15 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Geoff Huston <cidr-report@potaroo.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20050731145744.03477558@localhost>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Geoff Huston wrote:
> So - to NANOG at large - if you want your vendor to include 4-Byte AS support
> in their BGP code anytime soon, in order to avoid some last minute panic in a
> couple of years hence, then it would appear that you should talk to them now
> and say clearly that you want 4-Byte AS support in your BGP software right
> now.
Geoff, excellent idea..
before I forward this email to my suppliers tho, is there a reference I can
send.. excuse my ignorance but I'm not familiar with research done on 4-byte
ASNs, is there a proposed standard implementation?
If I have something definite to request I will immediately send those emails,
Steve
