as numbers

Mon Aug 1 19:00:14 UTC 2005

On 1 Aug 2005, at 06:15, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:

>
> On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Geoff Huston wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> If I have something definite to request I will immediately send those 
> emails,

draft-ietf-idr-as4bytes-10 seems to be the document to point them at.

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idr-as4bytes-10.txt

Joe