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Re: BGP-4+

Brandon Black <photon@nol.net> Wed, 18 December 1996 23:50 UTC

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From: Brandon Black <photon@nol.net>
To: Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com>
Cc: "John W. Stewart III" <jstewart@metro.isi.edu>, 6bone@isi.edu, dkatz@cisco.com, bgp@ans.net
Subject: Re: BGP-4+
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On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Yakov Rekhter wrote:

> 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.
> 

Famous last words :)

Bill Gates I think once said something along the lines of "nobody will
_ever_ need more than 640 kilobytes of main memory"

And somebody (some whole group of bodies) once thought that a 32-bit IP
address would hold off for along time....

Just food for thought...

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