Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering...

[Henk Uijterwaal <henk () ripe net>]

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


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