Re: ASN draft

[Bill Manning <[e-mail]>]

> You will note that in my brief definition of an ASN as
> something that uniquely identifies an AS, I mentioned
> nothing about how the ASN should be used.
> 
> How ASNs tend to be used is in BGP (for tagging NLRI) and in
> policy-routing databases and configurations.   In both
> cases, the ASN describes an AS and nothing else.
> 
> People sometimes tend to think of ASes and ranges of address
> space as inseperable to the point where an ASN is simply a
> short-hand for a range of address space.
> 

The current draft defines/redefines the ASN strictly as a routing tag,
depreciating any other use.  As you indicate in the above paragraphs,
you believe that there are other valid uses of AS and ASN notation.

So, we agree here.  The draft should change.

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--bill