On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:02:55 +0000 (GMT) "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com> wrote:
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Andy Davidson wrote:
RIPE will be accepting requests for 32-bit ASNs from 1/1/07, according to an email to ncc-services two weeks ago. It does not feel too early to start to understand what we must do to as a community to guarantee ubiquity of reachable networks.
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? 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?)
Testing -- better to find out now what breaks, before we really need it. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb