[lir-wg] RE: [ipv6-wg at ripe.net] Discussion about RIPE-261

On Mon, 26 May 2003, Gert Doering wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 11:41:30AM +0200, Måns Nilsson wrote:
> > Yes, it would be very convenient. I might want to advocate extending it to
> > be "one /32 per 16-bit AS" and have the routing table grow to a whopping
> > 2^16 routes. That must be painful. Surely. 
> 
> And it doesn't *solve* the policy issue - it will just move it to "who is
> entitled to get a 16-bit AS number".
> 
> So I'd be very careful about this "solution".

Totally agree -- in the sense, that IMHO, the registries need to start
putting better policies in place to prevent AS number starvation.

On the other hand, if we have good policies for ASN's, we could get easy 
address allocation too with little overheard and additional paperwork..

If we need to go for 32bit ASN's, I consider it a very bad policy 
failure.. :-(

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