Re: [sig-policy] prop-061-v001: 32-bit ASNs for documentation purposes

To: David Woodgate <David.Woodgate at telstra dot net>
Subject: Re: [sig-policy] prop-061-v001: 32-bit ASNs for documentation purposes
From: Philip Smith <pfs at cisco dot com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:59:56 +1000
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Hi David,

David Woodgate said the following on 15/7/08 08:37:

I believe that this proposal is out of scope for APNIC, in that, asdiscussed at APNIC 25, APNIC does not have the authority to reservepublic resources for regional shared use.

Please explain 2001:db8::/32 then. It was approved by the APNIC policy

process, and only much later did the authors of that policy proposal

take it to the IETF and moved through the various hoops to be granted

informational RFC status. (And even then, only informational, unlike

RFC1918 which is accorded BCP 5.)

I see nothing wrong with doing the same for 32-bit ASNs. I've found no

documentation anywhere that forbids this either.


philip
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