[lir-wg] AS Number Policy

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote:
> --On Tuesday, July 09, 2002 12:54:46 -0400 "Lu, Ping" <PLu at cw.net> wrote:
> 
> > Definitely there is AS number being used within our backbone but not
> > advertised to public
> > network. So the AS number should be allowed to be registered but not
> > advertised the same way
> > as IP address is treated.
> 
> Isn't that the definition of private AS?

The argument here is probably that it may be rather difficult to choose
such a private AS number, if you have lots and lots of customers, that it
would never clash with their customers' (depending on how it's being used)
internal usage.

In general, I don't think this kind of AS number use is appropriate in a 
bigger scale.

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