Re: [sidr] 4-byte vs 2 byte ASN (was re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-sidr-pfx-validate-03.txt)

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Wed, 02 November 2011 04:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: [sidr] 4-byte vs 2 byte ASN (was re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-sidr-pfx-validate-03.txt)
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aven i, an old fuddy duddy, kinda assume that an AS number is two or
four bytes, an ip address is ipv4 or ipv6, etc.  i can understand
clarifying once in a document where it is critical to do so, but would
not be inclined to make it explicit everywhere AS is used or ip address
is used.

randy