[83742] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yakov Rekhter)
Tue Aug 23 10:27:52 2005
To: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
Cc: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>,
NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:14:29 BST."
<Pine.LNX.4.63.0508231209410.5291@sheen.jakma.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 07:27:19 -0700
From: Yakov Rekhter <yakov@juniper.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Folks,
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Well, maybe that was a misunderstanding of IETF process of mine. But
> AIUI, it's intended to progress towards proposed standard, and
> getting implementations is part of that, in some fashion.
>
> The draft has been kept active by the IDR since 2001 btw.
>
> > I think I only felt the need to do this a handful of times over the
> > last decade, but it's generally difficult to position tcpdump such
> > that it will intercept the eBGP traffic.
>
> Ok. So that's a "not important" then.
>
> I'm interested in operational use of any kind of passive BGP 'reader'
> btw - not just ethereal/tcpdump. (Just to make it obvious ;) ).
May I suggest that you send your opinion on this topic to the IDR
mailing list (idr@ietf.org), as it would help the IDR WG to reach
a (rough) consensus on how to proceed with the draft.
Yakov.
