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Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering...
From: shields () msrl com
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:13:28 +0000
On 2006-10-10 09:41:37, Edward Lewis wrote:
I can't believe grown engineers are afraid of a dot.
People have been burned in the past, and this leads them to exaggerate the cost. But even if the cost is not as large as they fear, it is not zero. If you are in favor of a new notation because you think it will save work overall by reducing confusion, or because you prefer it aesthetically, or because you want change for the sake of change in order to flush out old tools, then you should write up your arguments and get them included in the document. It would be much more efficient to explain the benefits once in the RFC, rather than a thousand times whenever someone complains that they don't like it. Whatever the benefits are, it's apparent from the thread here that many operators are not convinced, and that they have concerns that may not have been considered. Although this subject is relatively on-topic for NANOG, talking about it here is not going to have any effect on the draft. If you feel strongly about it, you should join the IDR or IESG lists. -- Shields.
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- Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering... william(at)elan.net (Oct 10)
- Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering... Michael . Dillon (Oct 10)
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- Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering... Henk Uijterwaal (Oct 10)
- Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering... Michael . Dillon (Oct 10)
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- Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering... Henk Uijterwaal (Oct 10)
- AW: that 4byte ASN you were considering... Gunther Stammwitz (Oct 10)
- Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering... Larry Blunk (Oct 10)
- Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering... Owen DeLong (Oct 10)
- Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering... Edward Lewis (Oct 10)
- Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering... Randy Bush (Oct 10)
- Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering... shields (Oct 10)
- 4-Byte ASNs from the perspective of the 2-Byte world Geoff Huston (Oct 10)
- Re: 4-Byte ASNs from the perspective of the 2-Byte world Hank Nussbacher (Oct 11)
- Re: 4-Byte ASNs from the perspective of the 2-Byte world Geoff Huston (Oct 11)
- Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering... Douglas Otis (Oct 11)