[address-policy-wg] 2008-09 New Policy Proposal (ASPLAIN Format for the Registration of 4-byte ASNs)
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Garry Glendown
garry at nethinks.com
Mon Oct 20 20:47:38 CEST 2008
Rob Evans wrote: > > I agree, both with your sentiment and the proposal, but the "more > easily remembered" tag is a bit more than irrelevant. Whilst the > low-order 16 bits might not be memorable, it might be quite easy to > keep up with which registries have used which upper 16 bits for a > little while, so manual 'whois' queries can be directed to the > appropriate server. > Why would _YOU_ worry about memorizing which RIR to forward a query to? I thought that's what we have computers & programs for ;) I also agree with the proposal; amongst other things, AS regex would be a nightmare with different representation (except maybe automagically converting all 16 Bit AS to 0.x format) -garry
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