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

Hi all,

I think the following announcement from the IESG is relevant for this
discussion (sent yesterday, 27/10 @ 20:00).  For those not familiar
with the IETF process, this means that the document will now become
an RFC in the next couple of weeks.

Henk

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The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'Textual Representation of AS Numbers '
    <draft-ietf-idr-as-representation-01.txt> as a Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Inter-Domain Routing Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are David Ward and Ross Callon.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idr-as-representation-01.txt

Technical Summary

  A textual representation for Autonomous System (AS) numbers is
    defined as the decimal value of the AS Number.  This textual
    representation is to be used by all documents, systems and user
    interfaces referring to AS numbers.


   asplain
       refers to a syntax scheme of representing all AS numbers using
       decimal integer notation.  Using asplain notation an AS number of
       value 65526 would be represented as the string "65526" and an AS
       number of value 65546 would be represented as the string "65546".

Working Group Summary

    It was readily accepted.

Document Quality

   No issues

Personnel

    Dave Ward


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