Re: Redundant AS's

["Robert E. Seastrom" <rs () seastrom com>]

Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon () orthanc ca> writes:

> >   Autonomous systems will be  assigned  16-bit  identification
> >   numbers  (in  much  the same ways as network and protocol numbers
> >   are now assigned), and every EGP message header contains one word
> >   for  this  number.
>
> Was that a 36-bit word?

16-bit "word" in the sense of a PDP-11 or DG Nova, not 36-bit "word"
in the sense of a Univac-1100 or DECSYSTEM-20.  Be glad that it wasn't
a 12-bit "word" in the sense of a PDP-8.

(page 33, same RFC)

-r