dotted AS numbers in asn.txt

Wed Sep 19 19:31:01 UTC 2007

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On 19-Sep-2007, at 1417, Andreas Ott wrote:

> since when does ftp://ftp.arin.net/info/asn.txt contain dotted
> AS numbers?

Good question, for the reason you noted below (breaking scripts). If  
I was to guess I'd say it happened shortly after ARIN assigned their  
first 32-bit AS number.

> Where is the new formatting documented, asn.h ?

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-michaelson-4byte-as- 
representation-04.txt contains pertinent words, but I imagine it's  
not strictly accurate to call that documentation for ARIN's  
presentation format decisions (although maybe it is, to all intents  
and purposes, since I seem to think that George's draft mainly seeks  
to document practice that the RIRs have already agreed on, between  
themselves).

> It just broke a scriptology we use to generate AS lookups for  
> 'offline'
> customers (please don't ask :) ).

Joe