On Dec 20, 2010, at 10:15 PM, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 02:49:49PM +0200, Heinrich Strauss wrote: >> I'm kinda fearing this in South Africa, as we have a few large >> incumbents who aren't really driving -NG versions of protocols. >> >> They also have a "prove to us it's broken, and we may look at it in a >> few months' time"-attitude towards it. :O > > That would be why 32-bit ASNs have been "requestable" for the last couple of > years(?); you could have been prodding providers with "it doesn't work, fix > it" for a while now. > > - Matt > > -- > "For once, Microsoft wasn't exaggerating when they named it the 'Jet Engine' > -- your data's the seagull." > -- Chris Adams
I'll point out that there really isn't any alternative at this point. This approach will issue 16-bit compatible ASNs as long as they last. Once they're gone, it's not like there was some new 16-bit compatible alternative. Owen
