<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Since we’re talking about resources for exchange points that don’t exist yet, I don’t see how your statement is relevant.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m all for making life simpler for IXPs, but what I don’t want to do is promote expanding damage due to poor education. In this case, I believe that ASN ≤65535 issue is more likely the latter than the former.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></font></span></blockquote></div>I respect your tech expertise, however, from what I understand, any major change to core router at cooperate level does require a complicated process. And there are technical and communication cost involved as well.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">I would agree make life simpler for IXPs as they are one of very fundamental part of the internet.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">--<br class="">Kind regards.<br class="">Lu</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>