> On Aug 6, 2018, at 8:20 AM, Nick Hilliard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Job Snijders wrote on 06/08/2018 14:22> RFC 5396 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5396 described the "asdot+" and
>> "asdot" representation formats for AS numbers.
>> I'd personally prefer a single canonical way to represent ASNs
>> (asplain), and while RFC 5396 proposes the adoption of a decimal value
>> notation 'asplain', I don't think there is a document actively
>> discouraging the use of asdot and asdot+
>> We've come across asdot+ notation in strange places such as RPSL, and
>> I'm not yet sure how to proceed
>> https://github.com/irrdnet/irrd4/issues/48
> 
> Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send.  I.e. check 
> for asdot on inbound nrtm feeds and convert to asplain, with no option to 
> convert to asdot output.  It's inexplicable why anyone would output or use 
> asdot these days.
> 
> IIRC, Afrinic is the only RIR which outputs asdot from their whois server.  
> Everyone else changed to asplain around 2009.

And these days, if you want as-dot in your stuff, you should expect to throw a 
knob to have that happen.

-- Jeff

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