23 Mar
2009
23 Mar
'09
7:59 a.m.
Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> writes:
Autonomous systems will be assigned 16-bit identification numbers (in much the same ways as network and protocol numbers are now assigned), and every EGP message header contains one word for this number.
Was that a 36-bit word?
16-bit "word" in the sense of a PDP-11 or DG Nova, not 36-bit "word" in the sense of a Univac-1100 or DECSYSTEM-20. Be glad that it wasn't a 12-bit "word" in the sense of a PDP-8. (page 33, same RFC) -r