[92762] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David W. Hankins)
Tue Oct 10 13:02:56 2006
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:01:17 -0700
From: "David W. Hankins" <David_Hankins@isc.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <17707.17610.292994.926177@roam.psg.com>
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On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 01:59:22AM -0500, Randy Bush wrote:
> somehow we seem to have survived similar issues in IP quad
> representation.
Or domain names.
I'm concerned by the kind of discussion I'm seeing here.
RFC's are not law, and if your router vendor adopts this informational
document in such a way that it breaks your scripts then that's an issue
to take up with your router vendor(s).
I don't see why there's any reason it can't be made so (excuse me for
using what little Cisco configuration language I can remember):
o 'conf t' accepts:
router bgp 255.255.255.254
neighbor 10.0.0.1 remote-as 255.255.255.255
o 'wr mem/term' writes out:
router bgp 4294967294 # 255.255.255.254
neighbor 10.0.0.1 remote-as 4294967295 # 255.255.255.255
or even:
# BGP 255.255.255.254
router bgp 4294967294
# EZ-ASN: 255.255.255.255
neighbor 10.0.0.1 remote-as 4294967295
One or both of which probably won't break anyone's scripts.
The point is that this is a configuration language versioning issue,
which isn't something I think of the IETF having either a lot of
interest or ability to define.
As Shields has indicated, email the IETF mailing lists if you
must.
I'm in favor of people sending mail to lists to which I do not
subscribe.
But it's just /weird/ to ask the IETF to have this kind of
role...one it has never had to my memory, and seeks constantly
not to fulfill.
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