[93525] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fwd: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris L. Morrow)
Thu Nov 30 02:17:47 2006
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:02:22 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
In-reply-to: <456E3C97.4080700@ai.net>
To: NANOG Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Deepak Jain wrote:
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>
> Afraid so. I'm hoping to be out of the industry before calls for 128 bit
> AS#s come down the pipe and people (at that time) are laughing about how
> silly 32 bit AS#s seem.
>
> Does anyone have a current projection of when AS# (16 bit) exhaust will
> occur?
anyone have a swag at the number of things that this (32bit asn) touches?
netflow
bgp (duh!)
provisioning databases/systems
web-pages (really the backend parts like routeviews query/search tools)
yeesh :(
