[92739] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henk Uijterwaal)
Tue Oct 10 07:57:08 2006
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:56:09 +0200
To: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com, nanog@nanog.org
From: Henk Uijterwaal <henk@ripe.net>
In-Reply-To: <OFF375D648.CA33F1D0-ON80257203.003E6951-80257203.003F9623@
btradianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 13:34 10/10/2006, Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com wrote:
>My point is that if we do NOT introduce a special notation
>for ASnums greater than 65536, then tools only need to be
>checked, not updated. If your tool was written by someone
>who left the company 7 years ago then you might want to
>do such checking by simply testing it with large as numbers,
>not by inspecting the code. The dot notation requires that
>somebody goes in and updates/fixes all these old tools.
I don't agree with you but this is a valid argument. I suggest you
make it to the IESG before they decide.
Henk
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