On 22/10/2008, at 12:47 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
while we can hope that the ietf and rfced will process the asplain draft before eoy, when the rirs start issuing 4-byte asns, there is no need to bet on it. after all, the ietf was not very swift about processing the base 4-byte asn draft, were they?
in the meantime the IETF has completed its work: 28th October 2008 Protocol Action: 'Textual Representation of AS Numbers' to Proposed Standard The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Textual Representation of AS Numbers ' <draft-ietf-idr-as-representation-01.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Inter-Domain Routing Working Group. The IESG contact persons are David Ward and Ross Callon. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idr-as-representation-01.txt Technical Summary A textual representation for Autonomous System (AS) numbers is defined as the decimal value of the AS Number. This textual representation is to be used by all documents, systems and user interfaces referring to AS numbers. asplain refers to a syntax scheme of representing all AS numbers using decimal integer notation. Using asplain notation an AS number of value 65526 would be represented as the string "65526" and an AS number of value 65546 would be represented as the string "65546". Working Group Summary It was readily accepted. Document Quality No issues Personnel Dave Ward