[93542] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri Dec 1 11:42:17 2006
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 11:26:53 -0500
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
Cc: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>,
NANOG Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0612011600310.271@marvin.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:02:55 +0000 (GMT)
"Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Andy Davidson wrote:
> >
> > RIPE will be accepting requests for 32-bit ASNs from 1/1/07,
> > according to an email to ncc-services two weeks ago. It does not
> > feel too early to start to understand what we must do to as a
> > community to guarantee ubiquity of reachable networks.
>
> So, all of the current devices need to get upgraded before 'day one'
> of 32-bit ASN use... that'll be fun :) Why is RIPE passing out the
> 32-bit ASN's now? aren't there still plenty (+20k or so) 16-bit ASN's
> out there for assignment? (perhaps I'm missing something on the need
> to allocate the new asn's?)
>
Testing -- better to find out now what breaks, before we really need it.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
