as numbers
Joe Abley
jabley at isc.org
Sun Jul 31 14:51:16 UTC 2005
On 31 Jul 2005, at 01:23, Robert Boyle wrote:
> I agree that implementation sooner rather than later is a good idea,
> but all of us already have a 2-Byte AS so although we care in theory
> and believe it is a good idea, we don't _really_ care as much as the
> first guy who gets a 4-Byte AS will.
The first guy who gets a 4-byte AS number is going to be one of our
customers. If we want to be able to talk BGP with him, we need 4-byte
AS number support in our edge routers.
ISPs who have an interest in continuing to win transit customers past
2008/2009 should be interested in getting 4-byte AS number support,
regardless of how many 2-byte AS numbers they already have. ISPs who
plan to stop getting new customers don't need to bother :-)
Joe
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