32-bit ASN acceptance by ISPs in ARIN region

Geoff Huston gih at apnic.net
Mon Sep 23 13:28:58 UTC 2013


On 23/09/2013, at 8:01 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:

> On 23/09/2013 00:15, John Curran wrote:
>> Not being able to use 32-bit ASNs in your network and support systems will  
>> inevitably lead to confusion for those customers who are assigned them.
> 
> I look forward to the day when we have proper 32 bit BGP community support
> and ASN32s finally become usable on nontrivial networks.
> 

Is there some reference that describes the problems with the use of RFC5668? I was not aware
that there were residual issues here.


regards,

   Geoff






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