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Re: [Idr] Revised text for the 4-byte AS draft - IANA Considerations

Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@nexthop.com> Wed, 12 October 2005 16:54 UTC

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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:53:43 -0400
From: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@nexthop.com>
To: Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>
Subject: Re: [Idr] Revised text for the 4-byte AS draft - IANA Considerations
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Geoff,

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 02:01:35AM +1000, Geoff Huston wrote:
> The alternative is to propose an augmentation of the existing AS number
> registry where the first 65536 numbers are noted as "2-Byte compliant"
> numbers, and the remainder of the registry are "4-Byte-only" values.

I prefer this option.  While mistakes are probably rare at best,
this narrows (eliminates) the chances of a mistake causing a conflict
between the registries.

-- 
Jeff Haas 
NextHop Technologies



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