Hi, On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 03:58:38PM -0700, Leo Vegoda wrote:
(http://www.icann.org/en/resources/policy/global-addressing/global-policy-as n-blocks-21sep10-en.htm).
*sigh* Going back, I can see that this was a global policy proposal that came from the RIRs itself (2007-04 in RIPE land), and I can only lament the lack of foresight - on the side of the proposers, and on the side of the responsible AP WG chair (me). http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2007-04 Allocating 32bit(-only) ASNs in chunks of 1024 and for a time period of 12 months is just needless overhead - it made sense for 16bit ASNs which are quite obviously limited, but for 32bit ASNs, just allocating "enough" (like "all of AS3.* to RIPE NCC") would have been much more wise... OTOH, judging from the successful deployment of a good number of 32bit ASNs in RIPE land, I think we can state that using up the remaining 16bit ASNs now (at least those in the NCC pool) will not "needlessly burn up a valuable resource" - and I assume that IANA will replenish RIPE NCC's pool with a useful mixture of 32bit-only and 16bit chunks... Gert Doering -- APWG chair -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (89) 32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279