Re: Fwd: Re: RPSL support for 32 bit ASN

["Larry J. Blunk" ljb@localhost]

Henk Uijterwaal wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:20:53 +0200
> > To: Mark Prior mrp@localhost
> > From: Henk Uijterwaal henk@localhost
> > Subject: Re: RPSL support for 32 bit ASN
> > Cc: rpslnp@localhost, asn32@localhost, ggm@localhost
> >
> > At 15:08 18/08/2006, Mark Prior wrote:
> >
> > > Is it worth doing another update to RPSL to include this
> > This would certainly help us a lot (we can point to a document when
> > we update our tools), so ...
> >
> > ... I spent a morning writing essentially a 1 page document just to
> > update this and submitted it as an individual submission ID,
> > draft-uijterwaal-rpsl-4byteas-ext-00.txt.  To appear in the ID
> > repository soon.
> >
> > Henk
    There was considerable discussion during the development of the
RPSLng spec (RFC4012) concerning modifying the syntax for existing 
attributes.
The consensus was that this approach should not be taken and that
new attributes should be created wherever an IPv6 address could
appear so as not to break existing tools.   
draft-uijterwaal-rpsl-4bytesas-ext-00.txt
appears to have abandoned this approach.

-Larry Blunk
 Merit