[address-policy-wg] Info from the Address Council, regarding AS# allocation by IANA

Dear colleagues, for your information!

A while ago the IANA submitted a question regarding the appropriate interpretation
of the Global Policy on AS Number Allocation[1]; in particular, whether an
allocation needs to be a contiguous block or may be a set of separate ranges,
including a portion of the lower value range (legacy 16-bit range).

After some discussion, the Address Council agreed (unanimously, in its meeting
on June 5th, 2013[2]) on the following resolution:

<quote>
“The AC answers IANA’s question regarding the allocation of 1024 AS Numbers
as follows: There is no requirement in the policy to form the block of 1024
AS Numbers from a contiguous set of numbers, thus allocating from 2 or more
different value-ranges is acceptable.”
</quote>

Best regards,
Wilfried

[1] https://www.icann.org/en/resources/policy/global-addressing/global-policy-asn-blocks-21sep10-en.htm
    http://aso.icann.org/global-policies/

[2] for clerical reasons, the (draft) minutes for the June 5th meeting have
    only become available in late August, thus the delay in reporting back
    to the Working Group and community.