On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 09:57:14AM -0500, Joe Abley wrote:
On 4-Nov-2005, at 09:07, Russ White wrote:
- -- BGP is currently moving to a 2^32 space for AS numbers. That's odd, if there's only 18,044 origins in the current table, and it won't ever grow to much more--how'd we lose 40,000 or so AS numbers, that we now need more than 64,000?
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0510/huston.as.html http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0510/wilhelm.html
Per the latter - "... We show that this is due to two effects: (1) ASNs which are assigned based on future plans but never used in practice, and (2) ASNs which are no longer in use but not returned to the RIRs. If all these unused ASNs could be recovered, the pool of ASNs would last until 2025 to 2030. ..." What about those that are assigned and used but not [currently] visible on the public Internet [i.e., are on other internets]? -- Joe Yao ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is not an official statement of OSIS Center policies.