[lir-wg] AS Number Policy - continued

>Sure, becoming a LIR and obtaining an AS-Number are two very different things.
>You dont need to be a LIR to get an AS-Number. You can apply for an AS-Number
>as soon as you have routeable ip-space and 2 upstreams for BGP4 peering.
>(Please correct me if they did change that recently)

> To keep the administrative overhead small, I'ld suggest to let the new AS-
> owner show at least two agreements within "x" month after the assignment of
> the AS-# only if there are less than two verified peerings. I'ld see a
> verified peering as a record in both AS's whois-entry _and_ seen on the RIPE
> BGP-router (or on some other "neutral" point, like EP routers).

  ripe-227 (asnrequestform),
  issued 1 Octboer 2001
  requires an "X-NCC-RegID:"
  
  I do not recall when exactly the NCC stopped to work on ((PI-)IP-Adress
  and AS Number) requests from Non-LIRs. It's been a while :-)
  
  Wilfried.