[arin-ppml] 2-byte and 4-byte ASNs

[Jon Lewis]

Wouldn't these routing policies just need to be rewritten/modernized to 
use extended communities instead of the old 32-bit communities?  64-bits 
of ext-community ought to be enough for community-type, a 32-bit ASN, and 
some policy instruction.  Whether any routers support this, and in a 
user-friendly display format, is the next question...and if not now, how 
soon?

On Fri, 18 Apr 2014, Jason Schiller wrote:

> This was brought up at the open mic, and people just shrugged.
>
> I agree that this does not sound like a solution, but at the same
> time it did not move the community to reconsider their direction.

>> Question:
>>
>> Large ISPs implement BGP communities with a convention of 16-bit ASN
>> followed by 16-bits of locally defined meaning, such as set local pref
>> to 80.
>>
>> Does a comparable convention exist when dealing with 32-bit ASNs? If
>> not, what's the plan?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bill Herrin

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