On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 14:47:09 -0700
Owen DeLong <[email protected]> wrote:
On Aug 13, 2018, at 14:42 , Job Snijders <[email protected]> wrote:
I agree with the proposal.
I think this proposal is needed and addresses practical concerns: the alternative to transfers is “renumbering”, and renumbering
ASNs is a very costly and operationally risky proposition. There is no upside to restricting or forbidding this type of resource
transfer.
A question that remains: if you don’t want to transfer your ASN in or out of ARIN, then don’t, but why forbid others from doing
it? All resources should be transferable.
We can agree to disagree.
I agree with Owen, I just can't see a burning need. Renumbering seems to be a
bugaboo that is just not that difficult.
I would think the transfer of the ASN would as costly, difficult and risky as
migrating the resources onto a new ASN.
I remain of the opinion that the transfer of IPv4 resources was, for lack of a better term, a necessary evil to meet the
expediencies of a (hopefully unusual) situation (namely the end of the IPv4 free pool prior to the ubiquitous deployment of
IPv6).
Similarly to the mission creep of NAT (which was deployed for largely the same reason and which is now mistakenly widely
perceived to be a security tool), transfers are now seeing this sort of mission creep.
Having been through several ASN renumbering processes, I found them neither particularly costly (compared to the other tasks
related to the event triggering the need for the ASN renumber), nor operationally risky.
For the most part, networks themselves don’t move from one continent to another, so the need for migratory ASNs seems rather
dubious in the vast majority of cases.
Owen
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