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Re: 4-Byte AS Number soon to come?

  • From: Yakov Rekhter
  • Date: Tue Aug 23 10:23:21 2005 
Bill,

> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:53:45PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> > 
> > On 23-aug-2005, at 11:53, Paul Jakma wrote:
> > 
> > >The IDR draft is awaiting implementation report.
> > 
> > If this is true, it's very distressing. Drafts are deleted after  
> > about six months. That means that any implementations will be based  
> > on a no longer existing specification. That's wrong in so many ways.
> 
> 	... working code...
> 	based on the draft that is there, there are serious implementation
> 	problems, e.g. the draft needs clarification.  one does not expect
> 	prototype implementations based on drafts to be production level
> 	code...  well this one does not anyway.  implement away.

If you think there are problems with the draft please send an e-mail 
to the IDR mailing list describing the problems.

Yakov.