Proposed change to AS Numbers

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• Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:17:54 -0000

For information.

Whilst there has been much work done for IPv6 to establish a new protocol
which is less likely to run out of number space, the IETF are now working on
updating BGP to increase the possible number of Autonomous Systems.

From the RIPE 37 meeting, there were a couple of statistics people who
weren't present should be aware of;

Globally 51% of IPv4 address space is allocated, of which 61.8% is actually
advertised routes on the Internet (hence 38.9% is 'missing'). Globally AS
numbers 30% are assigned, of which 46% are not actually advertised on the
Internet. This was the situation in September 2000.

http://www.apnic.net/stats/bgp/ may be of further interest.

Adrian F Pauling
AFP1-RIPE : uk.btent
BT Business Services - Information Systems Engineering 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Smith [
	    
	    
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Sent: 16 November 2000 19:55
To: apops@localhost
Subject: [apops] Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-chen-as4bytes-00.txt


Given the current growth in ASN assignments around the globe, this is 
appropriate reading for everyone in the region.

philip
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>         Title           : BGP support for four-octet AS number space
>         Author(s)       : E. Chen, Y. Rekhter
>         Filename        : draft-chen-as4bytes-00.txt
>         Pages           : 4
>         Date            : 15-Nov-00
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>Currently the Autonomous System number is encoded in BGP as a two-
>octets field. This document describes extentions to BGP to carry the
>Autonomous System number as a four-octets field.
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