On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Donald Stahl wrote:
So, all of the current devices need to get upgraded before 'day one' of 32-bit ASN use... that'll be fun :) Why is RIPE passing out the 32-bit ASN's now? ARIN will begin passing out 32 bit ASN's to anyone who asks as of January 1, 2007. This is the same policy as RIPE so I don't see what the big deal is.
Uhm, I think I mis-read the date on the original :( I thought they HAD been passing them out, not WILL BE :( need more coffee :(
aren't there still plenty (+20k or so) 16-bit ASN's out there for assignment? (perhaps I'm missing something on the need to allocate the new asn's?) By all means let's wait until the last possible second to upgrade ASN support. The waiting approach has worked so well for IPV6 :) Seriously though- why not let people start registering now. The only way we'll know if 32 bit ASN's will work is if we start using them.
agreed, let's NOT do the v6 thing... do the 32-bit asn's give us more than just 'more bits' ? :) (Sorry, I couldn't resist). So, yes, let's get someone to start testing, I'd just caution on assigning the 32-bit asn's for real-users, since much of the net might not be able to use them, partial reachability will/could-be a problem.