Owen, The intent is not to give people as many AS's as they want, and indeed few businesses would ever need more than 1 AS.
What about if businesses did not have the multi-homing requirement for the first ASN they were issued? ...Skeeve *Skeeve Stevens - Senior IP Broker* *v4Now - *an eintellego Networks service [email protected] ; www.v4now.com Phone: 1300 239 038; Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; skype://skeeve facebook.com/v4now ; <http://twitter.com/networkceoau> linkedin.com/in/skeeve twitter.com/theispguy ; blog: www.theispguy.com IP Address Brokering - Introducing sellers and buyers On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Owen DeLong <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Feb 25, 2015, at 00:32 , Skeeve Stevens <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Sorry Dean, I don't agree with you. > > > > You guys are trying to tell people how to run their networks, and that > they aren't allowed to pre-emptively design their connectivity to allow for > changing to multi-homing, or away from it, without going through a change > in network configuration. > > > > That might be easy for you, but that is simply your opinion on how > things should be done... not a reason why others shouldn't be allowed to do > it the way they want to. > > > > If a member has a portable range, they should be entitled to - with no > restrictions - a ASN number to be able to BE as portable as they want to. > > Even if I agreed with what you have said above, and I do not, this last > statement bears no resemblence to the policy you have proposed. > > If you want to propose a policy that matches your last sentence, I would > not oppose that, so long as any additional ASNs had to be issued under the > current multihome requirement. > > However, your proposal doesn’t say someone who has PI space is entitled to > 1 ASN. It says anyone who wants one is entitled to as many ASNs as they > want. > > That’s simply a bad idea. > > Owen > >
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