Re: [Idr] WGLC on draft-ietf-idr-as-private-reservation-00

[Mikael Abrahamsson <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, 9 Dec 2012, Jeff Wheeler wrote:

> I mentioned this draft to two colleagues, and our discussion was
> immediately that it would be nice if the range of newly reserved
> values were easier for humans to read.  If it simply extended from
> 4,000,000,000 until 2**32-2 this would be a little nicer.
>
> If there has been discussion about this, could someone point me to it?
>
> Operators care about what things look like in the CLI or the NMS.  A
> bunch of private ASN all beginning with 427xxxxxxx 428xxxxxxx
> 429xxxxxxx is a little confusing, especially because 4278190080 would
> be a private ASN but 4278190079 is not.

I agree that 4,000,000,000 would be a nice number to start at. It would 
make it extremely easy to match prive ASN range with regexp as well.

If it's felt that 4B up to 2**32 is too many, then I propose that whatever 
number of private ASN is allocated starting at 4,000,000,000 instead of 
going from 2**32 and going down.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: [e-mail]