32-bit ASN acceptance by ISPs in ARIN region

Mon Sep 23 14:30:50 UTC 2013

I'd like to see an option for a larger private ASN block - 1K of private ASNs can be quite a pain in really large organizations.

I have seen others mention this in the past - e.g. 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/cisco/nsp/158375

But apparently there's not enough traction to cause movement.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:nick at foobar.org] 
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 10:22 AM
To: Geoff Huston
Cc: nanog at nanog.org list
Subject: Re: 32-bit ASN acceptance by ISPs in ARIN region

On 23/09/2013 15:14, Geoff Huston wrote:
> I'm sorry, but I'm still confused, as I see your comment as one that 
> relates to the size of the payload field here, as distinct from the 
> support for 32 bit AS numbers per se.

hence my original comment about being usable on nontrivial transit networks, where having the size of the community local administrator >= your customer asn bitfield size is a rather useful feature.

There's also a serious vendor support problem at the moment.

Nick