[83740] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yakov Rekhter)
Tue Aug 23 10:18:43 2005
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>,
Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>, NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 07:16:54 -0700
From: Yakov Rekhter <yakov@juniper.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Hi,
> On 23-aug-2005, at 11:53, Paul Jakma wrote:
>
> >The IDR draft is awaiting implementation report.
>
> If this is true, it's very distressing.
The IDR draft awaits an implementation report in order to advance
the draft to Proposed Standard. What is so distressing about this ?
> Drafts are deleted after
> about six months. That means that any implementations will be based
> on a no longer existing specification. That's wrong in so many ways.
Drafts are deleted after about six months *unless* the drafts are
renewed (republished). The draft we are talking about is an *existing*
specification (draft-ietf-idr-as4bytes-10.txt).
Yakov.
