[lir-wg] AS Number Policy - continued

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote:

> Agreed. OTH, this discussion to me was for new AS assignments that are not
> yet used. Which is somewhat easier to deal with than with existing AS:es.
> AS286 beeing an example that is announced but the question is if we can
> consider it "as in use" ?
> 

Yes.  If it appears in your BGP tables it is in use.  We cannot go and
look deeper.  Many more cases of ASNs appearing in the RIPE DB and not
appearing in any BGP announcement for the past year.  Easy targets - no
complications.

> 
> - kurtis -

Hank