[routing-wg]Representation of four byte AS numbers.

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 04:34:18AM +1100, Geoff Huston wrote:
> Speaking personally, I'm not sure what the objective would be in  
> introducing a similar proposal to RIPE at this stage, given that the  
> IETF process of standardization of nomenclature for 32-bit AS numbers  
> is reaching a conclusion in the coming couple of weeks or so, but I  
> guess (hope?) that the motivation for doing this in parallel in the  
> context of the RIPE policy development process  will become apparent  
> once the proposal you refer to is actually posted to the address- 
> policy mailing list.

The main issue is that our policy documents explicitely use ASDOT
notation for 4-byte AS numbers.

If the IETF decides to deprecate this notation, our documents need changing,
and we need a formal policy proposal to do that - and since this is an
address policy document, the proposal landed on APWG's plate.

I've asked the routing- and DB-WG chairs to send a "heads up" to their
respective working groups, so that interested parties can participate in
the discussion (if needed), and because it will also need an implementation
change in the RIPE DB software.

Gert Doering
        -- APWG chair
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