Hi,
On Nov 29, 2006, at 12:52 PM, william(at)elan.net wrote:
I did not see any consensus on that issue when it was brought to
NANOG-m.
Interesting. I didn't notice any support for separating the 32-bit
quantity into two sections, but I remember many people decrying
the need for any separator at all.
I'd have to look at archive but I was not left with impression that
people were against it rather they were noting changes that would
have to be made.
Obviously, 32-bit ASNs are 32 bit binary values and could be
represented in an infinite number of ways. IANA has chosen to use the
textual convention documented in draft-michaelson-4byte-as-
representation-02 for the expansion of the ASN registry found at
http://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers since, as that draft
mentions:
This notation has been informally adopted by at least one vendor,
and
used consistently in presentations in the Regional Internet Registry
(RIR) community towards the deployment of 4-byte AS numbers.
Rgds,
-drc
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