Hi all,
Not sure if you aware but there is an IETF Internet Draft winging its way through the system on this topic, namely
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-michaelson-4byte-as-representation.... txt
The -05 version is a major rewrite w.r.t. the -01 version discussed about a year ago.
It did get discussed on the IETF idr list in October 2006, and met significant resistance. There were also comments then about NANOG taking a position on this. I haven't seen any discussion since.
Current status is Application Director Watching
That is about right: the AD is watching developments but there aren't any. This is one of those cases where there are 3 solutions which all have their pro's and con's, and where neither one is better than any of the others. The only way out is that somebody makes a decision to pick one and accept that people in favor of the other solutions will be unhappy for a while, before they realize that they'll have to live with it. Right now, the time doesn't seem right yet to make this decision, so I guess that we'll have to live with this situation for a while. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Is one of the choices leaving the office open? Alan Greenspan on the next elections