On 24 March 2017 at 10:43, Jim Reid <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 24 Mar 2017, at 10:29, Dickinson, Ian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Requiring an ASN to be visible on the public Internet is a non-starter > IMHO. > > +1. > > There is no comparable requirement in any of the RIRs which demand LIRs > make their IP address allocations visible on the Internet. I fail to > understand why this obligation should apply to ASNs. > > It’s not as if we’ll be running out of AS numbers any time soon. What are > the actual (or perceived?) problems that would be solved by reclaiming the > ASNs that are not seen in the Internet’s routing tables? >
+1 from me too. I've worked in many companies where mergers and acquisitions resulted in conflicting "private" addressing schemes. If ASN scarcity was a real problem, it wouldn't be too hard to write an RFC for 128-bit ASNs. Aled
