<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Hi Saku,</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Extended communities are not transported in the Internet. So if I<br>
start new company and I want to sell IP transit, I'm competitively in<br>
disadvantageous position if I cannot market <myASN>:<action> traffic<br>
engineering policies to my customers.<br>
Sure I can use privateASN (and I must), but they are clearly less<br>
preferable on INET, and almost certainly won't cross many links.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes I totally agree here.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I.e. 16b ASN is special and should be under more strict assignment<br>
policy, when living without BGP communities is hard.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Problem is the extremely low number of 16b ASN in the pool of every RIR. Although RIPE NCC has a quarantine policy (if am not mistaken) with 000+ ASN in it (NCC can confirm). Strict assignment policy would be great but BGP Communities can be simple justification to get 16b ASN and bypass any hurdles isn't it? </div></div></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div dir="ltr">Best Wishes,<div><br></div><div>Aftab A. Siddiqui</div></div>