New AS request in another country

Hello,

I would just like to stress the fact that the crucial point in 
requesting an AS is the existence of a routing policy comprising a 
set of prefixes and not the administrative side of things.

Section 5 of rfc1930 and section 7 of ripe185 are good references to 
decide when to request an AS number.

The RIPE NCC issues AS numbers to LIRs that need them according to 
the above documents.

Joao Damas
Head of External Services
RIPE NCC

At 17:44 +0200 14/8/00, Herbert Baerten wrote:
>Dear colleagues,
>
>after reading various related RIPE documents, the following question is
>still not clear to me:
>suppose a company Foo.xx in country X (operating a LIR xx.foo) wants to
>start up a daughter company in country Y, where it will need a new AS.
>Can LIR xx.foo request a new allocation and a new ASN for use by the new
>daughter?
>or
>Does it need to establish a legal entity in country Y, start up a new LIR
>yy.foo, and have yy.foo request a new allocation and ASN ?
>
>tia!
>kind regards,
>Herbert
>
>--
>Herbert Baerten                         HB5351
>HostIT Network Manager            NCC9166-RIPE