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

[Curtis Villamizar <curtis at occnc.com>]

In message <17926D0F-52F1-41C7-8ECC-601D72F017AD at muada.com>
Iljitsch van Beijnum writes:
>  
> On 11-okt-2006, at 22:32, Curtis Villamizar wrote:
>  
> > How the protocol encodes an atribute does not impact how that
> > attribute is displayed in the CLI and therefore how or whether an RE
> > syntax could be used in policy statements.
>  
> I don't understand how these statements relate to the discussion at  
> hand.


You are right - type first think later is a bad idea.  In any case it
is fine to represent AS as big decimal numbers since there is no real
need to run RE over an adjacent set of numbers in policy statements or
sets of numbers with common values in the top part.  Adding a dot or
colon might upset some REs in existing policy.

Curtis

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