[arin-ppml] Request for staff: 4-byte ASN data

[Michael Peddemors]

On 15-05-15 08:22 PM, David Huberman wrote:
> Staff,
>
> The 4-byte ASN vs. 2-byte ASN debate is raging in the RIPE address
> policy working group.  In conversations with folks off-line, we’ve been
> trying to gauge how much of a problem the lack of 4-byte ASN support
> from some vendors is for smaller networks.  We know that big guys have
> problems with some gear not supporting advanced feature sets, but it’s
> much harder to get good data on how bad (or not) the little network
> operators have it.
>

Took one of our upstream providers almost 2 months before they could 
support our 4-byte ASN..

It should be noted that this can affect how long it takes a company to 
get utilization numbers up..


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