On Oct 9, 2007, at 9:43 AM, Tony Li wrote:
Any new design would have necessarily required more bits to address more end systems. Making legacy systems interact with these additional addressing bits without some form of gateway, NAT or other translation would indeed be challenging. You're literally trying to expand the size of the namespace that a legacy implementation will recognize.
32 bit AS numbers. Regards, -drc _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf