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

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Deepak Jain wrote:

Afraid so. I'm hoping to be out of the industry before calls for 128 bit AS#s come down the pipe and people (at that time) are laughing about how silly 32 bit AS#s seem.

Does anyone have a current projection of when AS# (16 bit) exhaust will occur?

anyone have a swag at the number of things that this (32bit asn) touches? netflow bgp (duh!) provisioning databases/systems web-pages (really the backend parts like routeviews query/search tools) yeesh :(