[lir-wg] AS Number Policy

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote:

>
> > A customer can have a peer with the default transit, which aggregates the
> > adresspace from the customer, and the customer can have other peerings
> > via some ix:es, and the customer could perform transit to/from the ix:es
> > to the default transit, in this scenario the customer MUST have a public
> > AS, which you will not see in the public space, since removing private
> > AS in the AS-path will result in somewhat unpredictable behaviour if there
> > are several private AS involved at the customer premises.
>
> Yes, but this still makes the AS publicly visible.


No, it does not, IF the transit decides to aggregate the larger block
that the customer uses adresspace in, and just announce this
larger block for the sake of not polluting the global routing-table,
the customer-as will not be visible in the Internet, just in
lookingglasses via the transit and the customers peeringpartners
lookingglasses.


>
> Best regards,
>
> - kurtis -
>

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Regards

	/Fredrik

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