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Re: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Fri Dec 01 11:54:02 2006

On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:02:55 +0000 (GMT)
"Chris L. Morrow" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Andy Davidson wrote:
> >
> > RIPE will be accepting requests for 32-bit ASNs from 1/1/07,
> > according to an email to ncc-services two weeks ago.  It does not
> > feel too early to start to understand what we must do to as a
> > community to guarantee ubiquity of reachable networks.
> 
> So, all of the current devices need to get upgraded before 'day one'
> of 32-bit ASN use... that'll be fun :) Why is RIPE passing out the
> 32-bit ASN's now? aren't there still plenty (+20k or so) 16-bit ASN's
> out there for assignment? (perhaps I'm missing something on the need
> to allocate the new asn's?)
> 
Testing -- better to find out now what breaks, before we really need it.



		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb