Folks,

Currently operations community in Japan is discussing about four byte ASN with concern of slow deployment.

I heard that we have only a few implementations of this feature for very big boxes yet. I'd like to know if we have a further information about the implementation, but anyway everyone need to be prepared to accept four byte ASN when they are assigned by default.

I think, as well as some other engineers around me, we need some experimental ASNs to allow the operators to try four- byte ASN to check it it will work in the real Internet.

IMHO, [16bit-ASN].23456 , [16bit-ASN].0 and [16bit-ASN].[16bit-private-ASN] are obviously available and once it is agreed among the Internet Operationss Community it can be used for any trial, and we can do that through RIRs poliy process, or IETF/RFC process like RFC1797 net 39 experiment.

I'd like to have your ideas around this, and take some actions toward this idea if needed.

Regards, ----- MAEMURA Akinori maem@maem.org