Redundant AS's

Fri Mar 20 18:33:23 UTC 2009

What this quote means is that it is 65536 times more cost-effective to  
deploy 4 byte ASN than to mess with legacy assignments.

On Mar 20, 2009, at 12:50 PM, Heather Schiller wrote:

> I tend to agree w/ Randy.. it's time and money better spent focusing  
> our efforts on supporting 4byte ASN (and v6 for that matter)   
> Attempts at recovering 2byte ASN's (and v4 space..) are short term  
> solutions, at best extend the 'free pool' for a short and  
> unpredictable period of time, while incurring more headache,  
> expense, and arguing, than working toward supporting the inevitable.

James R. Cutler
james.cutler at consultant.com