Hi Gert,
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:27:01AM +0200, Henk Uijterwaal wrote:
Yes, while it is likely that this draft will be accepted, it is by no means certain. Since we have some 14,000 ASN in the 16 bit range left (where all representations are the same), there is no real hurry either.
Except that the NCC will hand out 4-byte ASNs by default starting January 1st...
From Ripe-406:
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From 1 January 2009, you can use the Supplemental Comments field to let us know if you would like a 2-byte AS Number. If you give no preference, we will assign a 4-byte AS Number. ----------------- snip --------------
When this text was written, the idea was that one would get an ASN32, that is a nummber in the range 0 to 4.10^9. There was an option to get for a number in the 0-65536 range if you specifically asked for it. The text doesn't say that the RIRs cannot give out the numbers in the lower range in other cases. The background was that one estimate showed that we'd be close to the point where all ASN16 were assigned by 1/1/9, so it'd be good to keep the few remaining ones for special cases. In reality, it turns out that we now still have some 14,000 left, so handing out a few more from the <65536 range while we're sorting out how to format the numbers above 65536 doesn't seem to be a big issue to me. Henk -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Henk Uijterwaal Email: henk.uijterwaal(at)ripe.net RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.amsterdamned.org/~henk P.O.Box 10096 Singel 258 Phone: +31.20.5354414 1001 EB Amsterdam 1016 AB Amsterdam Fax: +31.20.5354445 The Netherlands The Netherlands Mobile: +31.6.55861746 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ceterum censeo Asplain esse delendam (Cato & Henk)