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<DIV>Dear members,</DIV>
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<DIV>During previous RIPE NCC Regional Meeting, I noticed that ( according to
our instructor ) there are some organizations</DIV>
<DIV>having AS number while they do not have a multihome network.</DIV>
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<DIV>According policy it is a mandatory requirement for having an ASN. Even in
AS request form there is a mandatory field ( peers )</DIV>
<DIV>which requestor has to declare at least 2 peers, otherwise the request will
not be processed by hostmaster.</DIV>
<DIV>and here:</DIV>
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title=http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/resource-management/allocations-and-assignments/request-an-as-number
href="http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/resource-management/allocations-and-assignments/request-an-as-number">http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/resource-management/allocations-and-assignments/request-an-as-number</A></DIV>
<DIV>it is clearly mentioned that “<FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Current guidelines require a network to be multi-homed,
and have a unique routing policy for an <SPAN
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<DIV>Now if it is really true that there are single-home organizations with ASN,
isn’t it a wrong doing?</DIV>
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<DIV>Kind Regards,</DIV>
<DIV>Saeed.</DIV>
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