[93552] 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 13:42:51 2006
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 13:15:14 -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.4.58.0612011656550.271@marvin.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> agreed, let's NOT do the v6 thing... do the 32-bit asn's give us more than
> just 'more bits' ? :) (Sorry, I couldn't resist). So, yes, let's get
> someone to start testing, I'd just caution on assigning the 32-bit asn's
> for real-users, since much of the net might not be able to use them,
> partial reachability will/could-be a problem.
The good news is that 32 bit ASN's won't be assigned by default until
2009. Starting on January 1, 32 bit ASN's will be assigned- but only to
those people explicitly requesting them. All in all it seems like a
sensible migration strategy.
-Don
