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List:       ipng
Subject:    (IPng 2643) Re: why do we need ASes??
From:       Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 ! hpcl ! titech ! ac ! jp>
Date:       1996-12-22 17:53:19
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> because the AS identifies the injecting administrative domain and
> policy exchange is based on that.  i actually thought hard about
> this in the 8+8 proposal and you really want to keep an independent
> identifier for the administrative domain distinct from the topology.

Are there any AS which is not contiguous today?

> "different kind of thing, different kind of name"

It seems to me that the difference is in the IP version number.

							Masataka Ohta
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