On Dec 20, 2010, at 10:15 PM, Matthew Palmer wrote:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 02:49:49PM +0200, Heinrich Strauss wrote:
I'm kinda fearing this in South Africa, as we have a few large incumbents who aren't really driving -NG versions of protocols.
They also have a "prove to us it's broken, and we may look at it in a few months' time"-attitude towards it. :O
That would be why 32-bit ASNs have been "requestable" for the last couple of years(?); you could have been prodding providers with "it doesn't work, fix it" for a while now.
- Matt
-- "For once, Microsoft wasn't exaggerating when they named it the 'Jet Engine' -- your data's the seagull." -- Chris Adams
I'll point out that there really isn't any alternative at this point. This approach will issue 16-bit compatible ASNs as long as they last. Once they're gone, it's not like there was some new 16-bit compatible alternative. Owen