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Re: interger to I P address
From: Mark Newton <newton () internode com au>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:44:36 +0930
On 28/08/2008, at 8:38 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
her at the apnic meeting, we are indulging for a bit into the deep topicof how ot textually represent 32-bit AS numbers. is it xxxx.xxxx orxxxxxxxx? while we readily admit that a deep many year discussion of adot is clearly a topic for the ietf, we do have to allocate these things, so actually need an answer.
At AusNOG last week, it was pointed out that using a "." in the middle of an AS number wrecks AS path regexes in RPSL. So those of us using IRR's have to go back and rewrite all our policies. And IRRToolSet needs to be updated, which is probably an even worse proposition :-) I'm strongly in favour of ASPLAIN. I reckon the people who advocate using dots because they think 32-bit ASNs up to 4 billion are too long to remember are probably getting old :-) - mark --Mark Newton Email: newton () internode com au (W) Network Engineer Email: newton () atdot dotat org (H)
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- Re: interger to I P address, (continued)
- Re: interger to I P address Aaron Gifford (Aug 27)
- Re: interger to I P address bmanning (Aug 27)
- RE: interger to I P address Joe Blanchard (Aug 27)
- Re: interger to I P address Beat Vontobel (Aug 28)
- RE: interger to I P address Joe Blanchard (Aug 27)
- RE: interger to I P address Boyd, Benjamin R (Aug 27)
- Re: interger to I P address Mike Damm (Aug 27)
- Re: interger to I P address bfeeny (Aug 27)
- Re: interger to I P address Johnny Eriksson (Aug 27)
- Re: interger to I P address Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 27)
- Re: interger to I P address Randy Bush (Aug 27)
- Re: interger to I P address Mark Newton (Aug 27)
- Re: interger to I P address Rob Austein (Aug 27)
- interger to I P address chartley (Aug 27)
- Re: interger to I P address Joe Greco (Aug 27)
- RE: interger to I P address Darden, Patrick S. (Aug 27)
- Re: interger to I P address Colin Alston (Aug 27)
- Re: interger to I P address Henry Yen (Aug 27)
- Re: interger to I P address Joe Greco (Aug 27)