At 08:15 PM 1/08/2005, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Geoff Huston wrote:

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So - to NANOG at large - if you want your vendor to include 4-Byte AS support in their BGP code anytime soon, in order to avoid some last minute panic in a couple of years hence, then it would appear that you should talk to them now and say clearly that you want 4-Byte AS support in your BGP software right now.

Geoff, excellent idea..

before I forward this email to my suppliers tho, is there a reference I can send.. excuse my ignorance but I'm not familiar with research done on 4-byte ASNs, is there a proposed standard implementation?

There is a draft draft-ietf-idr-as4bytes-10.txt- it is a draft because under the current IETF procedures there needs to be 2 independent implementations of the specification, and at the moment only Redback's BGP has implemented this. Once there is a 2nd implementation it will enter the Internet Standards track as a Draft Standard.

If I have something definite to request I will immediately send those emails,

http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2005-08/as.html contains the analysis of the AS number consumption data regards, Geoff