[ppml] Proposed Policy: 4-Byte AS Number Policy Proposal

[Daniel Schroder]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Daniel Roesen wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:48:22AM -0800, David Kessens wrote:
>>> ok - unless I hear to the contrary I'll run with the notation <high>.<low>
>>>
>>> e.g. 10.1
>>
>> I would prefer hex notation for the numbers.
>
> And how do you differentiate between AS1234 and AS1234 (being decimal
> AS4660)? You'll need syntactic sugar again for that. And ASa5f3 doesn't
> look appealing either, neither does ASA5F3 to me.
>
> So: how would you want representation to look like?
>
> Anyhow, that stuff will have interesting consequences to RPSL as well.
> Is there any work already in progress examining those? I have to admit
> that I have some understanding about the 32bit ASN hack as proposed
> technically, but no idea about the discussion of problems surrounding
> that. Especially the RPSL one might lead to much longer lead times than
> 2007-01-01 I fear.

     Just a quick comment, as admins get used to
     IPV6, surely it makes sense to move over to
     hex notation for As numbers as well.

     It will add an extra chapter to the cisco
     manauls, but I guess the internet should
     not be maintained by individuals who are
     easily confused.

     regards, Daniel (Schroder)

>
> Best regards,
> Daniel
>
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