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Re: BGP-4+

Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com> Wed, 18 December 1996 23:07 UTC

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To: "John W. Stewart III" <jstewart@metro.isi.edu>
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Subject: Re: BGP-4+
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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 96 14:46:34 PST
From: Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com>
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John,
 
>  > > also, from reading the draft, i'm assuming that you plan
>  > > to support only ASs and not RDs? did you consider typing
>  > > routing domains in addition to network addresses?
>  > 
>  > I am a bit confused - in my mind "RD" and "AS" describe
>  > pretty much similar thing. 
> 
> AS is two bytes, while RD is variable.  right? or is
> it me that's confused?

Ok, I got it (I was confused). 

To answer your question, it doesn't look like we'll have shortage of 
ASs any time soon. So, it is not clear if there is a need for variable
length RDs.

Yakov.

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