[82934] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: as numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Mon Aug 1 15:01:35 2005
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0508011112560.1697-100000@server2.tcw.telecomplete.net>
Cc: Geoff Huston <cidr-report@potaroo.net>, nanog@nanog.org
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 15:00:14 -0400
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 1 Aug 2005, at 06:15, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
>
> 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,
draft-ietf-idr-as4bytes-10 seems to be the document to point them at.
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idr-as4bytes-10.txt
Joe
