[lir-wg] AS Number Policy

Or, like me, you only have one *transit* provider, but a number of (small)
private peering connections.

Yes, the use of private/fake AS space is feasible, but the same issues arise
as with the misuse of RFC1918 space between organisaions.

Peter

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wolfgang Tremmel, WT5-RIPE" <wtremmel at vianetworks.com>
To: "Vladimir A. Jakovenko" <vovik at lucky.net>; "leo vegoda" <leo at ripe.net>
Cc: <lir-wg at ripe.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 1:10 PM
Subject: RE: [lir-wg] AS Number Policy


> I'd say yes, also if it perhaps once was intended differently.
>
> There are a number of ISPs out there which have for cost reasons
> only one upstream provider, but want to (also for cost reasons)
> peer at an exchange.
> This might not be the most redundant approach, but we should
> not tell them how to run their business.
>
> What would happen if we'd not allow this? Just more wrong
> entries in the RIPE database.....
>
> best regards,
> Wolfgang
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-lir-wg at ripe.net [mailto:owner-lir-wg at ripe.net]On
> > Behalf Of Vladimir A. Jakovenko
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 1:08 PM
> > To: leo vegoda
> > Cc: lir-wg at ripe.net
> > Subject: Re: [lir-wg] AS Number Policy
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:53:14AM +0200, leo vegoda wrote:
> > >Dear Colleagues,
> > >
> > >Within the RIPE community the AS policy (ripe-245) is based upon
> > >RFC 1930. The RIPE policy states that "a network [is required] to
> > >be multihomed for an AS number to be assigned". However, there is
> > >no clear policy on returning unused AS numbers to the pool.
> >
> > Would it be possible to define term multihomed more clearly?
> > Does it mean that AS just should have more than one eBGP peer?
> >
> > Lets see the following example:
> >
> >    +-----------+        +-------+
> >    | AS-UPLINK |        | AS-IX |
> >    +---------o-+        +o------+
> >              |           |
> >             +o-----------o+
> >             | AS-CUSTOMER |
> >             +-------------+
> >
> > AS-CUSTOMER is world-visible through AS-UPLINK and limited visible to
some
> > ASes through AS-IX.
> >
> > Should AS-CUSTOMER be considered as multihomed?
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Vladimir.
>
>