[address-policy-wg] RIPE NCC to Assign 16-bit ASNs Until ASN Pool is Replenished

On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Gert Doering wrote:

> OTOH, judging from the successful deployment of a good number of 32bit 
> ASNs in RIPE land, I think we can state that using up the remaining 
> 16bit ASNs now (at least those in the NCC pool) will not "needlessly 
> burn up a valuable resource" - and I assume that IANA will replenish 
> RIPE NCC's pool with a useful mixture of 32bit-only and 16bit chunks...

I would support any proposal for policy change to hand out 32 bit ASNs in 
larger chunks going forward, like 16384 at a time or even higher numbers. 
It would mean less work for people maintaining programs such as "whois - 
client for the whois directory service" because any range would last 
longer. I believe 32bit-ASNs should be handed out in 3-5 year forecasted 
growth.

Doing small chunks just seems like needless overhead.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se