[db-wg] Re: [address-policy-wg] 2008-09 New Policy Proposal (ASPLAIN Format for the Registration of 4-byte ASNs)

Fellow WG,

I concur fully on Nick's position, quoted below.

Best regards,
Daniel

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 04:18:48PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> Filiz Yilmaz wrote:
> > You can find the full proposal at:
> > 
> >     http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2008-09.html
> 
> Can definitely support this.
> 
> ASDOT is a broken representation and has no merit of any substance.  Not
> only that, the two arguments opposing the proposal are irrelevant.
> 
> - "ASDOT is more easily remembered"
> 
> For the foreseeable future, after the first 10k assignments of ASN32s in a
> particular 16 bit ASN block range (e.g. AS3.x), both ASDOT and ASPLAIN
> formats will be represented using similar numbers of digits.
> 
> - "All existing 4-byte only assignments have been made in ASDOT"
> 
> As of today, RIPE has assigned 19 ASN32s.  Changing the representation for
> these 19 holders (most of whom will have requested them for testing
> purposes anyway) is not going to be a major issue.
> 
> ASPLAIN representation is important for anyone who is in the business of
> writing or maintaining BGP prefix and AS path filters, either router-side
> or script-side.  In this area, ASDOT format is just a bagful of hurt with
> no redeeming features whatever.
> 
> Incidentally, the following documents will also need to be updated:
> 
> RIPE Database Query Reference Manual, section 2.3
> RIPE Database Update Reference Manual, section 1.2.3
> RIPE Database Update Reference Manual, table A1
> 
> However, as the RIPE database manual is outside the context of the PDP, it
> is probably appropriate to omit this from the policy proposal.
> 
> It's important that this policy proposal be passed before Jan 1, 2009, when
> the RIPE NCC starts issuing ASN32s by default.  After this date, it will
> become a lot more difficult to clean up the mess that's going to happen.
> 
> 
> Nick
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