Hi all, I think the following announcement from the IESG is relevant for this discussion (sent yesterday, 27/10 @ 20:00). For those not familiar with the IETF process, this means that the document will now become an RFC in the next couple of weeks. Henk - - - - The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Textual Representation of AS Numbers ' <draft-ietf-idr-as-representation-01.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Inter-Domain Routing Working Group. The IESG contact persons are David Ward and Ross Callon. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idr-as-representation-01.txt Technical Summary A textual representation for Autonomous System (AS) numbers is defined as the decimal value of the AS Number. This textual representation is to be used by all documents, systems and user interfaces referring to AS numbers. asplain refers to a syntax scheme of representing all AS numbers using decimal integer notation. Using asplain notation an AS number of value 65526 would be represented as the string "65526" and an AS number of value 65546 would be represented as the string "65546". Working Group Summary It was readily accepted. Document Quality No issues Personnel Dave Ward -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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)