[ppml] Policy Proposal 2005-9: 4-Byte AS Number

[bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 07:54:28AM +1100, Geoff Huston wrote:
> 
> >
> >3.) 2005-9 says nothing about whether or not people requesting 4 byte
> >ASN can request specific 4 byte
> >ASN. I think that the current sequential assignment should continue.
> 
> 
> It was never my intention to alter the AS Number assignment policy to allow 
> the request of specific numbers.
> 
> Now the policy, as written, had a definition of "4-Byte only AS Numbers" in 
> the terminology section, and I suspect that this definition is adequate in 
> terms of equating this phrase with the concept of numbers with non-zero 
> high order bits.

	not to confuse policy w/ design but...

	hum... an i had thought that -all- ASN's were defined in 4 byte
	space - but historically only the low order bytes were delegated.
	e.g. there is no such thing as a 2 byte ASN, just a 2 byte representation.

--bill	

> 
> regards,
> 
>     Geoff
> 
> 
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