[address-policy-wg] [routing-wg] Re-issue of reclaimed 16bit ASNs and modifications to references in routing policy to these resources

On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 02:49:33PM +0200, João Damas wrote:
> at the recent RIPE 68 meeting there was a discussion about issues
> concerning the re-issue of recovered 16-bit ASNs by the RIPE NCC and
> possible modifications to the content of routing-related attributes in
> RIPE Database objects, namely the routing policy attributes of autnum
> and as-set objects.
> 
> The observed consensus during the meeting was that:
> 
> - the RIPE NCC should not to remove references to recovered ASNs from
> import and export lines, and neither from as-set objects; routing
> policies are the realm of the object owner and are not related to
> allocation data.
> - the RIPE NCC will inform the maintainer of the object containing the
> obsolete reference about this reference. The RIPE NCC will also offer
> support to the maintainer to delete the reference;
> - the RIPE NCC will start re-assigning referenced AS numbers once the
> unreferenced pool of 16-bit AS numbers has been exhausted.
> 
> We would like to close the issue and be able to provide clear guidance
> to the RIPE NCC so we would like to get confirmation for this outcome
> also from the working group mailing lists. This is not a policy issue:
> the re-allocation of recovered ASNs was dealt with by the APWG, the
> current issue is related to alterations to RIPE Database objects that
> reference the resources subject to re-allocation.  We propose a 15 day
> comment period, ending June 24th 2014.

I like it. 

Kind regards,

Job