4-Byte AS Number soon to come?

Tue Aug 23 14:31:18 UTC 2005

On 23-aug-2005, at 16:16, Yakov Rekhter wrote:

>>> The IDR draft is awaiting implementation report.

>> If this is true, it's very distressing.

> The IDR draft awaits an implementation report in order to advance
> the draft to Proposed Standard. What is so distressing about this ?

A draft is work in progress. We don't even get to refer to it because  
it's deleted after 6 months. As such, it's hardly less ephemeral than  
a conversation.

You can't build implementations based on that. But I guess this is  
what happens with the convoluted "standards track" mechanism that the  
IETF currently uses.

One thing that bothers me very much about this is that it will make  
changes that happen in IETF last call much harder. Essentially that  
means that anyone who isn't in IDR doesn't get to have his or her  
input considered.