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? Thanks, Deepak Marshall Eubanks wrote:
Seems relevant.
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From: IESG Secretary <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Date: November 29, 2006 10:32:38 AM EST To: IETF Announcement list <ietf-announce@ietf.org> Subject: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:56:13 -0500 From: IESG Secretary To: IANA CC: IESG
Dear IANA,
The IESG has approved the expansion of the size of the AS Number registry described in draft-ietf-idr-as4bytes-12.txt before the approval of the document. Please expand the AS Number space to include the values 65536 through 4294967295, initially marked as "Held by IANA".
Allocations can be made to the RIRs prior to the publication of this RFC.
Thank You, The IESG
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