Re: ASN Name of the week

[Carlos Friacas <cfriacas () fccn pt>]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:

> > Hi,
> >
> > ASNV6, no clue... but 32-bit ASN are already prepared, at least in
> > the registry world.
>         It was just a joke, since the AS is getting high up there
> in the 2 byte range (2/3's of the available ones down I think) and
> was implying that moving to 4 byte would be as fast/efficient/complete
> as going to IPV6 (Not...)

That's actually something funny......
We'll probably run out of v4 addresses sooner than 2 byte ASN, however, 
globally it seems more pieces of the puzzle are in place for the latter 
"revolution".

But then again... IPv6 is a long run thing. Most people still don't 
understand how IPv4 works... :-)

Cheers,

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