[policy-announce] 2008-09 Policy Proposal Withdrawn (ASPLAIN Format for the Registration of 4-byte ASNs)

PDP Number: 2008-09
ASPLAIN Format for the Registration of 4-byte ASNs

Dear Colleagues,

The proposal 2008-09, "ASPLAIN Format for the Registration of 4-byte
ASNs", has been withdrawn. It is now archived and can be found at:

  http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2008-09.html

Given the recent publication of RFC 5396, the proposer and the
Address Policy WG Chairs have agreed that there is no need to keep
2008-09 in the RIPE Policy Development Process. RFC 5396 can
be found at: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/rfc/rfc5396.txt

Following feedback received in RIPE 57, the Address Policy WG Chairs
have also concluded that the current RIPE Policy Document ripe-389,
"Autonomous System (AS) Number Assignment Policies and Procedures",
will be updated so that the reference to the previous registration
format is deleted from the policy document.

We have now published a draft RIPE Policy Document, in which the
changes are marked:

  http://www.ripe.net/ripe/draft-documents/ripe-389-draft-2008-09.html  

We encourage you to read this document and, if you have any
comments, send them to <address-policy-wg at ripe.net> before 12 March
2009.

After this date we will publish the draft document as a RIPE Policy
Document.

A further announcement will be made shortly regarding the full
implementation of the ASPLAIN registration format for 32-bit AS
Numbers by the RIPE NCC.

Regards,

Filiz Yilmaz
Policy Development Officer 
RIPE NCC