Hello, Disclaimer: I hide sensitive information (ASN, company name,...). Flames & co > /dev/null RIPE are welcome to contact me because i don't find contact except the registration contact for members only. My company have an operational ipv6-site since 17 january 2001 on 6bone (http://whois.6bone.net/cgi-bin/whois?NDSOFTWARE). We made a lot of tests with our IPv6 experimental network and we provide IPv6 connectivity to many IPv6 projects. We do BGP peering with a private ASN (we announce only our routes with community no-export if the peer accept it and use correct filter) because we don't have our ASN. Now, we will build a real IPv6 network (native peering, peering with other ISP on Internet Exchange,...). My company created the first french IPv6 Internet Exchange, FNIX6 (http://www.fnix6.net) but my company can't peer on FNIX6 becase we don't have public ASN. Yesterday, i sent my ASN request to the RIPE by my LIR (peer1): ---------------------------------------------------------------------> X-NCC-RegID: <obscured-regid> #[ANNOUNCED ADDRESS RANGES]# <obscured-ipv6-/32> #[PEERING CONTACTS]# <obscured-peer1-email> <obscured-peer2-email> #[AUT-NUM TEMPLATE]# aut-num: NEW as-name: NDSOFTWARE-AS descr: NDSoftware IP Network import: from AS<obscured-peer1-as> action pref=100; accept ANY import: from AS<obscured-peer2-as> action pref=100; accept ANY export: to AS<obscured-peer1-as> announce NEW export: to AS<obscured-peer2-as> announce NEW remarks: Network problems to: noc@ndsoftwarenet.com remarks: Peering requests to: peering@ndsoftwarenet.com remarks: Abuse notifications to: abuse@ndsoftwarenet.com remarks: NDSoftware have an open peering policy. admin-c: AUTO-1 tech-c: AUTO-1 notify: notify@ndsoftwarenet.com mnt-by: NDSOFTWARE-MNT changed: hostmaster@ripe.net source: RIPE #[MAINTAINER TEMPLATE]# mntner: NDSOFTWARE-MNT descr: NDSoftware IP Network admin-c: AUTO-1 tech-c: AUTO-1 upd-to: ipmaster@ndsoftwarenet.com mnt-nfy: notify@ndsoftwarenet.com auth: MD5-PW $1$uAUWFve7$aPxYj8kqY4sCqr7g7fL6J/ notify: notify@ndsoftwarenet.com mnt-by: NDSOFTWARE-MNT referral-by: RIPE-DBM-MNT changed: hostmaster@ripe.net source: RIPE #[PERSON TEMPLATE]# person: Nicolas DEFFAYET address: NDSoftware address: 57 rue du president Wilson address: 92300 Levallois-Perret address: France phone: +33 671887502 e-mail: nicolas.deffayet@ndsoftware.net nic-hdl: AUTO-1 notify: notify@ndsoftwarenet.com mnt-by: NDSOFTWARE-MNT changed: nicolas.deffayet@ndsoftware.net source: RIPE #[ADDITIONAL INFORMATION]#. We request a pTLA to 6bone as soon we get our ASN. We are the founder of FNIX6 (French National Internet Exchange IPv6). We provide IPv6 transit to many projects. #[TEMPLATE END]# ---------------------------------------------------------------------> Reply of RIPE: ---------------------------------------------------------------------> Thank you for your request for an AS number, but with IPv6 you do not need to use any AS numbers nor route objects. Please have a look at the IPv6 documentation at the following link: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ipv6.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------> Very stupid reply, for do BGP peering, request a pTLA to 6bone and peer on FNIX6, we need a public ASN. There isn't IPv6 documentation for ASN on http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ipv6.html => How get an ASN for our new IPv6 network ? (we don't want do IPv4 network) Thanks Best Regards, Nicolas DEFFAYET