Level3 Question

Fri Nov 11 21:41:49 UTC 2005

On Nov 11,  1:14pm tony.li at tony.li wrote:
> The only way to get 32-bit AS number support deployed is to run out  
> of AS numbers in
> the 16 bit space.

Exactly.

  - When will the Internet deploy X?

  - Just before it's too late.

How many people on this list remember the transition from BGP3 to
BGP4 and CIDR?  This was, uhh, about 12 years ago.  Before that there
was an EGP to BGP transition, but that was less of an issue.

But history will repeat itself.  Not that I see any great evil in that --
people are always busy, have always been.  It's a case of which priorities
are most pressing, so, indeed, yes, the only way is to run out of the
existing resource.  Likewise for whatever will provide more address space.-)

  -- Per