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> What this leads to is a registry system (one or more) for the 32-bit > suffixes in which you form "colloquial" memberships, ensuring uniqueness > among competing ASNs *as long as both ASNs subscribe to the same registry*. > > But membership is VOLUNTARY; you give up nothing except possibly the ability > to allow people to join your ASN without renumbering if you don't belong. > > Right now membership in these registries is MANDATORY; the network breaks if > you choose random 32-bit integers and masks and announce them. We can fix > this if we think for more than 2 nanoseconds before doing something stupid > (again). > > If you want to connect to an ASN which is *NOT* part of your colloquial > group, that's fine too -- but you might need to renumber in that case (or > perhaps not - 32 bits is still quite large). draft-odell-8+8-00.txt (expired) suggests something not so different from this. -Phil
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