Re: RIPE and IPv6 ASN

[Arien Vijn <]

On 15-10-2002 15:35PM, "Nicolas DEFFAYET" <nicolas.deffayet@localhost
wrote:

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> Reply of RIPE:
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> Thank you for your request for an AS number, but with IPv6 you do not
> need to
> use any AS numbers nor route objects.
> 
> Please have a look at the IPv6 documentation at the following link:
> http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ipv6.html
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From a technical point of view RIPE's reply is not accurate indeed. How can
you talk BGP without an AS number? That has nothing to do with IPv6 as such.

Hmmm... if there is absolutely something wrong if this is truly in the
policies. 

Arien


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