The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry

Fri Dec 1 06:26:54 UTC 2006

Joe Abley wrote:
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> On 30-Nov-2006, at 12:59, John Payne wrote:
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>> On Nov 29, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
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>>> Seems relevant.
>>
>> Any word from vendors on supporting images?   I found some old 
>> presentations that said Juniper (ERX) and Redback had announced 
>> supporting images and Cisco had an unannounced version, but thats all.
> 
> http://www.potaroo.net/drafts/draft-huston-idr-as4bytes-survey-00.txt 
> has some relevant info, although that draft is a year or so old now.

Last time I spoke to them, the Juniper and Cisco versions only ran on
a subset of their routers.  Their claim was that almost nobody had
asked for this so it doesn't have any priority.

For those using software routers: there is an unannounced patch for
Quagga that supports this.

Henk

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