Immediate Implications
Exhaustion of current AS numbers under current practices is likely in 2005 with exponential growth (and simplistic assumptions).
The issue demands the concerted attention of the Internet community.
- IETF protocol development. The IDR WG has taken up the Rekhter/Chen draft as a work item.
- Probable need for conservation and/or reclamation of AS numbers by the RIRs.
- Possible opportunities to deploy various workarounds and hacks.