Re: [Idr] route-capability explained

Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie> Mon, 04 August 2008 19:49 UTC

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On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Samita Chakrabarti wrote:

>    Are you sure?

Reasonably sure. Whether they're of significance is another matter..

> A deployment should be a RFC compliant. Draft-rekhter-as4octet is 
> an individual contribution now. When it becomes an RFC, the final 
> deployment should follow the RFC. But, folks can discuss more on 
> this and come up with a solution that works and scales.

Ok.

My vote is for constraining originators to encode 2:2 bytes of 
ASN:value (with the 2-byte extcom type code obviously) wherever 
possible, with 4:2 (4B code, obviously) if the AS value requires it.

regards,
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Paul Jakma	paul@clubi.ie	paul@jakma.org	Key ID: 64A2FF6A
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