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Re: [Idr] Re: Last Call: 'Canonical representation of 4-byte AS numbers' to Informational RFC (draft-michaelson-4byte-as-representation)

Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info> Tue, 10 October 2006 04:10 UTC

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From: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Subject: Re: [Idr] Re: Last Call: 'Canonical representation of 4-byte AS numbers' to Informational RFC (draft-michaelson-4byte-as-representation)
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:09:59 -0500
To: John Leslie <john@jlc.net>
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On 9-Oct-2006, at 15:11, John Leslie wrote:

>    And there's a particularly obvious alternative: simply  
> continuing the
> decimal notation used now. We've already adapted to five-digit decimal
> numbers without a whimper: is there really any reason to believe six
> digits will prove unworkable?

But then how do you distinguish between a 2-byte only AS number and a  
4-byte AS number which happens to be less than 0.65535?


Joe


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