[lir-wg] AS Number Policy - continued

Hello,
On Mon, 5 Aug 2002 14:52:13 +0200 (CEST), Sebastian Willing wrote:
>ASs allocated to RIPE:		6016
>ASs unassigned:			 616
>ASs singlehomed:		 224
>ASs unused:			1526
Good peace of work, interesting ...

This statistics shows that the typical problem case isn't a singlehomed
ASn, it's just an *unused at all* ASn.

Thus it seems it isn't necessary to establish a big buerocracy
with forms to be signed etc. (like we German tend to do ;-|, its
just sufficient to validate their use in the global table and/or view
peer/upstream AS references (listing in as-set or aut-num object
of partner) corresponding to the ASn in the RIPE database.

IMHO this should give a large yield (1500+x) with little effort
and covers most "I am $BIGCOMPANY and need a ASn because
its rare and for free" cases.

Best Regards
Oliver Bartels



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