[86625] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level3 Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wayne E. Bouchard)
Fri Nov 11 17:22:50 2005
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:19:45 -0700
From: "Wayne E. Bouchard" <web@typo.org>
To: Per Gregers Bilse <bilse@networksignature.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200511112141.jABLfnI14532@wraith.qbfox.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 09:41:49PM +0000, Per Gregers Bilse wrote:
>
> On Nov 11, 1:14pm tony.li@tony.li wrote:
> > The only way to get 32-bit AS number support deployed is to run out
> > of AS numbers in
> > the 16 bit space.
>
> Exactly.
>
> - When will the Internet deploy X?
>
> - Just before it's too late.
>
> How many people on this list remember the transition from BGP3 to
> BGP4 and CIDR? This was, uhh, about 12 years ago. Before that there
> was an EGP to BGP transition, but that was less of an issue.
>
> But history will repeat itself. Not that I see any great evil in that --
> people are always busy, have always been. It's a case of which priorities
> are most pressing, so, indeed, yes, the only way is to run out of the
> existing resource. Likewise for whatever will provide more address space.-)
>
> -- Per
I think, however, that this will be less dramatic than other
things. This is a "relatively" simple software change. The one thing
it *will* do is make sure that all the old hardware out there that
runs BGP won't work anymore and have to be updated. This is arguably a
good thing. Also remember that this is still some time away. Getting
ever closer, but still a future event.
---
Wayne Bouchard
web@typo.org
Network Dude
http://www.typo.org/~web/
