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Re: AS Numbers from a common 32-bit pool.


From: Matthew Palmer <mpalmer () hezmatt org>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:15:17 +1100

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 02:49:49PM +0200, Heinrich Strauss wrote:
I'm kinda fearing this in South Africa, as we have a few large  
incumbents who aren't really driving -NG versions of protocols.

They also have a "prove to us it's broken, and we may look at it in a  
few months' time"-attitude towards it. :O

That would be why 32-bit ASNs have been "requestable" for the last couple of
years(?); you could have been prodding providers with "it doesn't work, fix
it" for a while now.

- Matt

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