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Re: [Idr] Re: Last Call: 'Canonical representation of 4-byte AS numbers' to Informational RFC (draft-michaelson-4byte-as-representation)


On 9-Oct-2006, at 15:11, John Leslie wrote:

And there's a particularly obvious alternative: simply continuing the
decimal notation used now. We've already adapted to five-digit decimal
numbers without a whimper: is there really any reason to believe six
digits will prove unworkable?

But then how do you distinguish between a 2-byte only AS number and a 4-byte AS number which happens to be less than 0.65535?


Joe


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