Re: [sig-policy] prop-064: Change to assignment policy for AS numbers

[Izumi Okutani <izumi@nic.ad.jp>]

Hi all,

sorry for spamming - please bear with me for a while. i'll need to go
through this for proposals with major concerns in JP.

There were quite a number of discussions on whether there are no
technical issues/we are ready enough to stop distinguishing 4 byte and
2byte ASNs after Jan 2010.

I know this is outside the scope of this proposal, but quite a number of
concerns were expressed, so I thought I'd share it here.

Moving to the main point, regarding the proposal itself, there were
general support given that distinction between 4 byte and 2 byte ASN
will stop after Jan 2010.

A number of suggestions for imrovements were made as follows:

 + Perhaps, no need to have a phase where people can request for 2 byte
without justification as it doesn't mean much
   (most people are likely to request for 2 byte in that case)

 + Distribute until from 2 byte range until it runs out (~AS60000). Once
it does, start distributing from 4 byte range
   (that way, operators will prepare by the time of exhaustion of 2 byte
ASN)


izumi

Randy Bush wrote:
> ________________________________________________________________________
> 
> prop-064: Change to assignment policy for AS numbers
> ________________________________________________________________________
> 
> 
> Dear SIG members
> 
> Below is a summary of discussions on the proposal to date. We encourage
> you to continue discussions on the mailing list before APNIC 26.
> 
> Regards,
> Randy and Jian
> 
> 
> Proposal summary
> ----------------
> 
> This proposal seeks to create an awareness for the need to support
> 4-byte AS numbers by introducing another key date in the timeline for
> APNIC,Abs move to assigning 4-byte AS numbers by default.
> 
> The proposal suggests that from 1 July 2009, APNIC assigns 4-byte AS
> numbers by default unless the LIR can document that they cannot
> successfully announce a 4-byte AS number.
> 
> This proposal has not been submitted to any other RIR.
> 
> 
> Discussion statistics
> ---------------------
> 
> Posted to Policy SIG mailing list:             22 July 2008
> 
> Number of posts:                               7
> 
> Number of people participating in discussions: 5
> 
> 
> Summary of discussions to date
> ------------------------------
> 
> - There was a suggestion that it would be interesting to see the
>    proposal in the ARIN region.
> 
> - There was a suggestion to add a section to the proposal that APNIC
>    publish statistics about networks not able to support 4-byte AS
>    numbers.
> 
> 
> Full details of the proposal, including links to previous discussions
> of it at earlier meetings, can be found at:
> 
>       http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals/prop-064-v002.html
> 
> 
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