Re: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry

Hi,

On Nov 29, 2006, at 12:52 PM, william(at)elan.net wrote:
>>> I did not see any consensus on that issue when it was brought to  
>>> NANOG-m.
>> Interesting. I didn't notice any support for separating the 32-bit  
>> quantity into two sections, but I remember many people decrying  
>> the need for any separator at all.
> I'd have to look at archive but I was not left with impression that  
> people were against it rather they were noting changes that would  
> have to be made.

Obviously, 32-bit ASNs are 32 bit binary values and could be  
represented in an infinite number of ways. IANA has chosen to use the  
textual convention documented in draft-michaelson-4byte-as- 
representation-02 for the expansion of the ASN registry found at  
http://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers since, as that draft  
mentions:

    This notation has been informally adopted by at least one vendor,  
and
    used consistently in presentations in the Regional Internet Registry
    (RIR) community towards the deployment of 4-byte AS numbers.

Rgds,
-drc

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