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Re: Fwd: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry

From: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () verizonbusiness com>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:02:22 +0000 (GMT)




On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Deepak Jain wrote:



Afraid so. I'm hoping to be out of the industry before calls for 128 bit
AS#s come down the pipe and people (at that time) are laughing about how
silly 32 bit AS#s seem.

Does anyone have a current projection of when AS# (16 bit) exhaust will
occur?


anyone have a swag at the number of things that this (32bit asn) touches?

netflow
bgp (duh!)
provisioning databases/systems
web-pages (really the backend parts like routeviews query/search tools)


yeesh :(

Current thread:

Fwd: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry Marshall Eubanks (Nov 29)
- Re: Fwd: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry Deepak Jain (Nov 29)
  - Re: Fwd: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry Chris L. Morrow (Nov 29)
  - Re: Fwd: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry Todd Vierling (Nov 30)
- Re: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry John Payne (Nov 30)
  - Re: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry Joe Abley (Nov 30)
    - Re: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry Henk Uijterwaal (Nov 30)