[address-policy-wg] Cleaning up Unused AS Numbers
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Aled Morris
aled.w.morris at googlemail.com
Fri Mar 24 12:02:26 CET 2017
On 24 March 2017 at 10:43, Jim Reid <jim at rfc1035.com> wrote: > > > On 24 Mar 2017, at 10:29, Dickinson, Ian <Ian.Dickinson at sky.uk> wrote: > > > > Requiring an ASN to be visible on the public Internet is a non-starter > IMHO. > > +1. > > There is no comparable requirement in any of the RIRs which demand LIRs > make their IP address allocations visible on the Internet. I fail to > understand why this obligation should apply to ASNs. > > It’s not as if we’ll be running out of AS numbers any time soon. What are > the actual (or perceived?) problems that would be solved by reclaiming the > ASNs that are not seen in the Internet’s routing tables? > +1 from me too. I've worked in many companies where mergers and acquisitions resulted in conflicting "private" addressing schemes. If ASN scarcity was a real problem, it wouldn't be too hard to write an RFC for 128-bit ASNs. Aled -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/address-policy-wg/attachments/20170324/89ae4927/attachment.html>
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