Re: interger to I P address

her at the apnic meeting, we are indulging for a bit into the deep topic of how ot textually represent 32-bit AS numbers. is it xxxx.xxxx or xxxxxxxx? while we readily admit that a deep many year discussion of a dot is clearly a topic for the ietf, we do have to allocate these things, so actually need an answer. on the other hand, i wonder if this ingenious community could come up with the extraodinarily difficult programming task of routines to convert between the two notations. randy