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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
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