On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Arien Vijn wrote:
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
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From a technical point of view RIPE's reply is not accurate indeed. How can you talk BGP without an AS number? That has nothing to do with IPv6 as such.
Incorrect. There is a private ASN space, see: http://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords