[93546] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Fri Dec 1 12:31:20 2006
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
Cc: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>,
NANOG Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:02:41 +0100
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0612011600310.271@marvin.argfrp.us.uu.net> (Chris
L. Morrow's message of "Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:02:55 +0000 (GMT)")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Chris L. Morrow:
> So, all of the current devices need to get upgraded before 'day one' of
> 32-bit ASN use... that'll be fun :)
| 6. Transition
|
| The scheme described in this document allows a gradual transition
| from 2-octet AS numbers to 4-octet AS numbers. One can upgrade one
| Autonomous System or one BGP speaker at a time.
Routers on stub ASs don't need upgrading at all, for instance.
