Look like those singlehomed ASs need to shutdown their primary link and activate their backup link so RIPE NCC could verify their LEGAL use of ASes :( For the unused ASs, I think an annual renewal fee is a whole lot easier to verify their intent to use then go thru INCOMPLETE global routing table and non-distribute whois db :) Ping Lu Cable & Wireless USA Network Tools and Analysis Group W: +1-703-292-2359 E: plu@cw.net
-----Original Message----- From: Oliver Bartels [mailto:oliver@bartels.de] Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 9:31 AM To: lir-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [lir-wg] AS Number Policy - continued
Hello, On Mon, 5 Aug 2002 14:52:13 +0200 (CEST), Sebastian Willing wrote:
ASs allocated to RIPE: 6016 ASs unassigned: 616 ASs singlehomed: 224 ASs unused: 1526 Good peace of work, interesting ...
This statistics shows that the typical problem case isn't a singlehomed ASn, it's just an *unused at all* ASn.
Thus it seems it isn't necessary to establish a big buerocracy with forms to be signed etc. (like we German tend to do ;-|, its just sufficient to validate their use in the global table and/or view peer/upstream AS references (listing in as-set or aut-num object of partner) corresponding to the ASn in the RIPE database.
IMHO this should give a large yield (1500+x) with little effort and covers most "I am $BIGCOMPANY and need a ASn because its rare and for free" cases.
Best Regards Oliver Bartels
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