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Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering...
From: Larry Blunk <ljb () merit edu>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:21:49 -0400
Henk Uijterwaal wrote:
At 13:34 10/10/2006, Michael.Dillon () btradianz com wrote:My point is that if we do NOT introduce a special notation for ASnums greater than 65536, then tools only need to be checked, not updated. If your tool was written by someone who left the company 7 years ago then you might want to do such checking by simply testing it with large as numbers, not by inspecting the code. The dot notation requires that somebody goes in and updates/fixes all these old tools.I don't agree with you but this is a valid argument. I suggest you make it to the IESG before they decide. Henk
RFC2622 uses the following Flex macro for AS numbers -- INT [[:digit:]]+ ASNO AS{INT} Note that this does not limit the length of the AS number. While it's no guarantee that an RPSL tool wouldn't break with longer AS numbers, it would seem less likely than with the "." notation. -Larry Blunk Merit
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- Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering... Joe Abley (Oct 10)
- Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering... David W. Hankins (Oct 10)
- Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering... Michael Shields (Oct 10)
- Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering... David W. Hankins (Oct 10)
- Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering... william(at)elan.net (Oct 10)
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- Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering... Henk Uijterwaal (Oct 10)
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- Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering... Henk Uijterwaal (Oct 10)
- AW: that 4byte ASN you were considering... Gunther Stammwitz (Oct 10)
- Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering... Larry Blunk (Oct 10)
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- Re: 4-Byte ASNs from the perspective of the 2-Byte world Geoff Huston (Oct 11)