16 Aug
2014
16 Aug
'14
11:25 p.m.
On 17 August 2014 00:08, Hannigan, Martin <marty@akamai.com> wrote:
With "the cloud" allowing for effective single homing these days, do we really need to codify any sort of multi-homing requirement? I also don't see the utility of a list of reasons that someone can be assigned an ASN. Isn't "I'm connecting to a network and speaking bgp" good enough.
16b are scarce and special, and one application where you really want to have 16b ASN is when you have >1 upstream and >0 downstream, then you really want to support TE via communities, and for this you are in competitive disadvantage without 16b ASN. Otherwise agreed. -- ++ytti