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Re: [Idr] Question about BGP Large Communities

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Wed, 05 February 2020 10:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idr] Question about BGP Large Communities
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> I'm asking for 67 million AS numbers, after which there will still be
> over 4 billion AS numbers, 
> not including the nearly 95 million private AS numbers.

should be enough.  after all, ipv6 only had 4096 possible providers

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