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IIRC, the IPv6 address string includes a field for your AS number. I don't recall the bit length of that field, though. (in addition to a field designating what PLANET you're on...) -Chris > Rather than allocate AS numbers as we do today, why not make an AS > simply be a globally unique 32 bit number, and establish a convention > that AS numbers must come from a customer's netblock? That is, if > I'm assigned 10.0.0.0/24, I could pick 10.0.0.1 as my "AS" number > (or 10.0.0.37 for that matter) and I just start announcing it. > > The thought is many providers prefix filter routing announcements. > The same filter could be applied to AS numbers. Networks would > never have to 'allocate' ASN's (sorry arin, no $500 for you), and > if they needed two they would just need 2 IP addresses. The global > uniqueness is still guaranteed, and the owner can be tracked (via > IP allocation, of course). > > Right now the up-sides and down-sides I know about cancel out in my > view, so I can't put this forth as a proposal I support at the moment, > but perhaps with some discussion I can be moved to the firmly a bad > idea or firmly a good idea camp. > > > -- > Leo Bicknell - [email protected] > Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440 > Read TMBG List - [email protected], www.tmbg.org -- --------------------------- Christopher A. Woodfield [email protected] PGP Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xB887618B
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