[83741] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yakov Rekhter)
Tue Aug 23 10:22:09 2005
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
Cc: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>,
Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>, NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:02:07 -0000."
<20050823110207.GA29783@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 07:21:10 -0700
From: Yakov Rekhter <yakov@juniper.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Bill,
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:53:45PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> >
> > 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. 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.
>
> ... working code...
> based on the draft that is there, there are serious implementation
> problems, e.g. the draft needs clarification. one does not expect
> prototype implementations based on drafts to be production level
> code... well this one does not anyway. implement away.
If you think there are problems with the draft please send an e-mail
to the IDR mailing list describing the problems.
Yakov.
