Question about RADb

The AS is register with http://www.radb.net/
And now we use BGP between our 3 upstream provider, but we will change them
to one Upstream and there will not be BGP between us. So Think technically
we after the change we will not need this AS number. Is this correct
Thanks

     
Eng. Saleh Diab
SCS-Net ISP
Network Operations Dept. Supervisor
+963 11 9981 Ext 3344
P.O. Box: 13365 Damascus-Syria


-----Original Message-----
From: Florian Weimer [mailto:fweimer at bfk.de] 
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 2:43 PM
To: Eng. Saleh Diab
Cc: db-help at ripe.net
Subject: Re: Question about RADb

* Eng. Saleh Diab:

> We have AS number from RADb,

Do you mean ARIN or RIPE, perhaps?

> but due to some issues, we will change our
> upstream provider to another one in which we will be under his AS
>
> So do we need the AS number anymore? 

Some IP carriers require that you use your own AS number.  You need to
check your contracts, we can tell you if that's the case.

Technically, you only need your own globally unique AS number if you
have got customers which have routers which speak BGP with your
network.

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