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

[Jon Mitchell <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 02:15:00AM +0100, Richard Hartmann wrote:

> 
> Personally, I would tend towards 9,000,000 - 9,999,999 as that will allow
> ten segments of 100k AS numbers each, but the limits are more or less
> arbitrary. It's important to me that they are on decimal boundaries, give
> enough space for future use, and short enough to see at a glance, in this
> order.

Isn't it just as easy to spot a 10 digit number starting with 42 easier
than a 7 digit number starting with 9, when 5 digit numbers starting
with 9 could happen in this lifetime, while 7 8 or 9 digit numbers are
unlikely to happen w/o some radical change in how ASNs are used or
allocated?  It sounds like both you and Nick put some value on the "make
it short argument", but the proposal on the table meets your other
critiera, I assume you could support it?

Btw, what is the value of segments you are referring to, aren't you feel
free to make these yourself out of 1M anywhere in the vast amount of
space available in any of the proposals on the table?

Jon