[address-policy-wg] 2014-03 "Remove Multihoming Requirement for AS Numbers Assignments" take #4

On Tue, 11 Aug 2015, Job Snijders wrote:

> I've noted as an argument opposing this proposal: "An adversary could 
> try to deplete the pool of available ASNs." If someone has a workable 
> suggestion how to resolve that in policy, I am all ears, but I wouldn't 
> mind a pragmatic approach where we just trust our community and deal 
> with issues if and when they arise.

Cap the number of ASNs handed out until the policy is evaluated.

RIPE is allowed to hand out $NUMBER ASNs under this policy, when $NUMBER/2 
has been reached, please come back and tell us how it went.

If $NUMBER is in the 10k-50k range, and we're talking 32bit ASNs, we 
haven't used up a huge amount of this limited resource.

Also, having an ASN costs money per year, right? So if someone wants to 
sit on 1000 ASNs, this will actually cost significant money?

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se