On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, M�ns Nilsson wrote: [...] > > There are now less than 35000 free AS numbers. If such a policy would be > > adopted there would be a huge land rush, depleting the AS number supply > > and forever polluting the IPv6 routing table with 64000 or so routes, > > most of which don't need to be there. The fact that this also uses up > > 0.0016 percent of the IPv6 address space isn't a significant issue, of > > course. > > The fix for this is 32-bit AS numbers. Those 35000 ASen will suffice while > we look at multihoming problems and routing table growth. Providing we get > people to use v6 instead of talking about it here -- we can't know unless > we test this, and the experience gained is worth some of the risk.
Well, my personal take is that if we need 32-bit AS numbers, we have failed. Failed how? Failed to produce a multihoming solution for smaller enterprises which would not need an AS number otherwise, but whose about only (clear) option is to go and get an AS number for their site multihoming purposes. -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
