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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