Re: ASN Name of the week

[Stephen Wilcox <steve.wilcox () packetrade com>]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:20:25PM +0100, Carlos Friacas wrote:
> 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".

I doubt most routers are 4 byte ASN aware, but the difference is no 'revolution' is required as 4 byte is designed to 
cross silently across any 2 byte only routers without needing any upgrade by nature of BGPv4s flexibility 

Steve