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Re: AS Numbers from a common 32-bit pool.
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:01:40 -0800
On Dec 20, 2010, at 10:15 PM, Matthew Palmer wrote:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 02:49:49PM +0200, Heinrich Strauss wrote:I'm kinda fearing this in South Africa, as we have a few large incumbents who aren't really driving -NG versions of protocols. They also have a "prove to us it's broken, and we may look at it in a few months' time"-attitude towards it. :OThat would be why 32-bit ASNs have been "requestable" for the last couple of years(?); you could have been prodding providers with "it doesn't work, fix it" for a while now. - Matt -- "For once, Microsoft wasn't exaggerating when they named it the 'Jet Engine' -- your data's the seagull." -- Chris Adams
I'll point out that there really isn't any alternative at this point. This approach will issue 16-bit compatible ASNs as long as they last. Once they're gone, it's not like there was some new 16-bit compatible alternative. Owen
Current thread:
- AS Numbers from a common 32-bit pool. bill manning (Dec 20)
- Re: AS Numbers from a common 32-bit pool. Heinrich Strauss (Dec 20)
- Re: AS Numbers from a common 32-bit pool. Matthew Palmer (Dec 20)
- Re: AS Numbers from a common 32-bit pool. Owen DeLong (Dec 20)
- Re: AS Numbers from a common 32-bit pool. Heinrich Strauss (Dec 21)
- Re: AS Numbers from a common 32-bit pool. Jack Bates (Dec 21)
- Re: AS Numbers from a common 32-bit pool. Matthew Palmer (Dec 20)
- Re: AS Numbers from a common 32-bit pool. Heinrich Strauss (Dec 20)