[address-policy-wg] Input Requested: How to Ensure Responsible ASN Resource Management

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 11:25:16AM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> there's plenty of kit out there which still doesn't support BGP Large 
> Communities, particularly mikrotik routeros which only released an 
> initial production implementation at around the beginning of 2022.

How would you translate this into "generic 32bit AS number usability"?

I do understand how folks like IXPs use 32bit ASNs, but the consequence
of your statement would be "no IXP can have any 32bit participant, because
someone with a Mikrotik router might not be able to set proper communities",
which is not what happens in reality.

So for the IXP ASN itself, I can see some stronger arguments for a 16bit
ASN (because fallback to 16bit IXP:<thing> community values wouldn't work
either, then) - but for everything else?

More curious than trying to argue any particular point,

Gert Doering
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