Lyndon Nerenberg <lyn...@orthanc.ca> writes: >> Autonomous systems will be assigned 16-bit identification >> numbers (in much the same ways as network and protocol numbers >> are now assigned), and every EGP message header contains one word >> for this number. > > Was that a 36-bit word?
16-bit "word" in the sense of a PDP-11 or DG Nova, not 36-bit "word" in the sense of a Univac-1100 or DECSYSTEM-20. Be glad that it wasn't a 12-bit "word" in the sense of a PDP-8. (page 33, same RFC) -r
