[93533] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fwd: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Thu Nov 30 14:52:56 2006
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:42:16 -0500
From: "Todd Vierling" <tv@pobox.com>
To: deepak@ai.net
Cc: "NANOG Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <456E3C97.4080700@ai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 11/29/06, Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net> wrote:
> 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.
I hope to be long dead before we exhaust >4 billion ASNs. If I'm
still alive then, someone probably transferred my brain into a
positronic neural network, and Earth is long since uninhabitable by
organic life. But I wouldn't doubt if some threads like this are
still running on HSNOG (Hyperspace Network Off-topic Gripes).
Hm. I think I need to get some lunch before the office cafeteria closes.
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>
