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

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Dec 20, 2010, at 10:15 PM, Matthew Palmer wrote:

> 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
>
> -- 
> "For once, Microsoft wasn't exaggerating when they named it the 'Jet Engine'
> -- your data's the seagull."
>               -- Chris Adams

I'll point out that there really isn't any alternative at this point. This approach
will issue 16-bit compatible ASNs as long as they last. Once they're gone,
it's not like there was some new 16-bit compatible alternative.

Owen