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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yi Chu wrote: \ > 2. Just as Randy noticed during the meeting, 32-bit AS is the same > range as IPv4. I would think everyone would agree that writing and > communicating IPv4 as a single integer (3420323840 is the same as > 203.222.32.0) is a bad idea. 203.222.32.0 is 3420332032. and that's 52190.8192 in ASDOT. 3468851153 is 52930.30673 I don't see any readability / writing enhancement. there is still 10 characters to deal with. > > 3. It was mentioned that we probably will not exceed 7 digit ASN. > However, this is exactly the mentality that got us here in 16-bit ASN > and with IPv4. We can not forsee the new use of ASN in the future. > It may happen that every household gets an ASN for mobile service in > the future. and like we have seen with IPv6, not making it backward compatible has its own drawbacks. In a live environment today, I don't see any advantage of not making things backward compatible. The additional work needed to change all the OSS and regexp is considerably larger when we change formats. As Randy said, if we do want a delimiter, why not ASSMILEY. thanks -gaurab -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjIR48ACgkQSo7fU26F3X1cggCgyCo1WOTGh4Xgx4RJMxlDniW4 6mYAnj7UnCSpCskURND/2/q+sSDR8s+u =L+I3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
