<div><div dir="auto">Hi Nick,</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 00:25 Nick Hilliard <<a href="mailto:nick@foobar.org" target="_blank">nick@foobar.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">Elvis Daniel Velea wrote on 11/06/2023 10:06:<br>
> If someone could tell me why a 32bit ASN can not be used today (even <br>
> with 10 years old equipment), I’d appreciate it.<br>
<br>
there's plenty of kit out there which still doesn't support BGP Large <br>
Communities, particularly mikrotik routeros which only released an <br>
initial production implementation at around the beginning of 2022.<br>
<br>
Nick</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">thanks for that. I’m surprised to hear this, but heh, manufacturers can be slow sometimes… very slow :(</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It may, then, matter to some if an ASN is 16bit or not. I know that the NCC had at some point (maybe still do) assigned 16bit ASNs upon request. Curious to see some stats, if possible:</div><div dir="auto">- how many requests come in for 16bit a year? how many are those of the total ASN requests?</div><div dir="auto">- how many 16bit ASNs are still in the pool and how many come back to the free pool every year?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Just trying to see how many years until 16bit ASNs could only be issued by the NCC only if returned.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">On another note, I believe that there were a lot of 16bit ASNs in quarantine because of references in various objects (mostly as-sets if I recall correctly). Can you tell us, Marco, how many of those ASNs are quarantined and why aren’t these removed out of quarantine and assigned?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">elvis</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div>
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