[routing-wg]Idea about AS-usage on IXPs
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Max Tulyev
president at ukraine.su
Mon Dec 4 12:34:20 CET 2006
Hi! By the way, is 0.11111 and 11111 same ASes? Volodymyr Yakovenko wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:18:40PM +0100, Kurt Kayser wrote: >> Hi Randy, >> >> Randy Bush wrote: >>>> Is inter-IXP-traffic really typical/necessary? >>> >from a router on IX A, i want a nice clean traceroute to a router on IX >>> B, and only have access to that IX via my friend's network on IX A. >> If the router is not an IXP-owned router, each participating router is in a >> "normal" AS. >> >> But I might be really wrong in order to save a couple of 2-Byte AS-numbers, >> but somehow I have the feeling that 2-Byte space is out much faster that >> anticipated. >> So how far are we in globally reachable 4-Byte AS-numbers yet? (different >> topic). > > According to RIPE-389 (http://www.ripe.net/docs/asn-assignment.html#19): > > 1.9 4-Byte AS Numbers > > RIPE NCC will assign 4-Byte AS Numbers according to the following timeline: > > * From 1 January 2007 the RIPE NCC will process applications that specifically request 4-byte only AS Numbers and assign such AS Numbers as requested by the applicant. In the absence of any specific request for a 4-byte only AS Number, a 2-byte only AS Number will be assigned by the RIPE NCC. > * From 1 January 2009 the RIPE NCC will process applications that specifically request 2-byte only AS Numbers and assign such AS Numbers as requested by the applicant. In the absence of any specific request for a 2-byte only AS Number, a 4-byte only AS Number will be assigned by the RIPE NCC. > * From 1 January 2010 the RIPE NCC will cease to make any distinction between 2-byte only AS Numbers and 4-byte only AS Numbers, and will operate AS Number assignments from an undifferentiated 4- byte AS Number allocation pool. > > Terminology > > "2-byte only AS Numbers" refers to AS Numbers in the range 0 - 65535 > > "4-byte only AS Numbers" refers to AS Numbers in the range 1.0 - 65535.65535 (decimal range 65,536 - 4,294,967,295) > > "4-byte AS Numbers" refers to AS Numbers in the range 0.0 - 65535.65535 (decimal range 0 - 4,294,967,295) > -- WBR, Max Tulyev (MT6561-RIPE, 2:463/253 at FIDO)
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