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

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