On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 09:41:49PM +0000, Per Gregers Bilse wrote: > > On Nov 11, 1:14pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The only way to get 32-bit AS number support deployed is to run out > > of AS numbers in > > the 16 bit space. > > Exactly. > > - When will the Internet deploy X? > > - Just before it's too late. > > How many people on this list remember the transition from BGP3 to > BGP4 and CIDR? This was, uhh, about 12 years ago. Before that there > was an EGP to BGP transition, but that was less of an issue. > > But history will repeat itself. Not that I see any great evil in that -- > people are always busy, have always been. It's a case of which priorities > are most pressing, so, indeed, yes, the only way is to run out of the > existing resource. Likewise for whatever will provide more address space.-) > > -- Per
I think, however, that this will be less dramatic than other things. This is a "relatively" simple software change. The one thing it *will* do is make sure that all the old hardware out there that runs BGP won't work anymore and have to be updated. This is arguably a good thing. Also remember that this is still some time away. Getting ever closer, but still a future event. --- Wayne Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/
