I'd like to see an option for a larger private ASN block - 1K of private ASNs can be quite a pain in really large organizations.
I have seen others mention this in the past - e.g. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/cisco/nsp/158375 But apparently there's not enough traction to cause movement. -----Original Message----- From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:n...@foobar.org] Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 10:22 AM To: Geoff Huston Cc: nanog@nanog.org list Subject: Re: 32-bit ASN acceptance by ISPs in ARIN region On 23/09/2013 15:14, Geoff Huston wrote: > I'm sorry, but I'm still confused, as I see your comment as one that > relates to the size of the payload field here, as distinct from the > support for 32 bit AS numbers per se. hence my original comment about being usable on nontrivial transit networks, where having the size of the community local administrator >= your customer asn bitfield size is a rather useful feature. There's also a serious vendor support problem at the moment. Nick
