[93543] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donald Stahl)
Fri Dec 1 12:09:05 2006
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 11:52:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Donald Stahl <don@calis.blacksun.org>
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
> 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?
ARIN will begin passing out 32 bit ASN's to anyone who asks as of January
1, 2007. This is the same policy as RIPE so I don't see what the big deal
is.
> 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?)
By all means let's wait until the last possible second to upgrade ASN
support. The waiting approach has worked so well for IPV6 :) Seriously
though- why not let people start registering now. The only way we'll know
if 32 bit ASN's will work is if we start using them.
-Don
