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Bad routes update
- Subject: Bad routes update
- From: [email protected] (Craig Metz)
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 14:13:27 -0400
- In-reply-to: Your message of "23 Jul 1999 14:09:10 EDT." <[email protected]>
In message <[email protected]>, you write:
>Although I can't possibly imagine a world where we'll need four
>billion ASes, I can easily imagine one where we need two hundred
>thousand, which certainly exceeds 16 bits.
Remember that an AS more or less represents an independent inter-domain
routing policy. I suspect that there are other complexity reasons why more than
15k independent inter-domain routing policies would be a Bad Thing, making the
number space not as much of a problem.
I'm no BGP expert. Hopefully, someone who is will step up and clarify.
-Craig