On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:08:27PM +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:
Today's figures from delegated-ripencc-latest and the ripedb show:
- 26768 ASNs assigned - 7165 LIRs with ASNs - 6245 with a single ASN assigned - 649 with 2 ASNs
Looking at these numbers, even if a quota figure were set as low as 2 ASNs per LIR, that's still over 25% of all ASNs for which there is no reason to return if they're unused. This is not going to encourage efficient garbage collection.
Erm. 25% of all *currently assigned* ASNs, whatever that may signify. 2ASN/LIR is ~0.0007% of *all* ASNs (assuming 9k LIRs)
As a separate issue, free asn quotas for LIRs are not really within the spirit of RIPE community policy for PI resource assignment.
Currently all ASN are "free", so how does this proposal make it worse? rgds, Sascha Luck