On Sunday, July 17, 2005, 17:40:27, Claudio Jeker wrote: > ... It is important that RIPE and the others are picky about giving > out AS numbers because these will run out soon (64512 is the max and > soon 40000 AS nums will be given away). Switching from a 16bit number > to something else is a tough job -- hopefully they don't mess it up as > with IPv6.
There is some activity towards extending BGP to carry a four-octet Autonomous System number. BGP support for four-octet AS number space http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idr-as4bytes-10.txt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The avalanche has already started, it is too Rod Dorman late for the pebbles to vote." Ambassador Kosh
