[82936] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: as numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoff Huston)
Tue Aug 2 01:44:07 2005
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 15:43:21 +1000
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
From: Geoff Huston <cidr-report@potaroo.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0508011112560.1697-100000@server2.tcw.teleco
mplete.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 08:15 PM 1/08/2005, 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?
There is a draft draft-ietf-idr-as4bytes-10.txt- it is a draft because
under the current
IETF procedures there needs to be 2 independent implementations of the
specification,
and at the moment only Redback's BGP has implemented this. Once there is a 2nd
implementation it will enter the Internet Standards track as a Draft Standard.
>If I have something definite to request I will immediately send those emails,
http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2005-08/as.html
contains the analysis of the AS number consumption data
regards,
Geoff
