Hi this maillist has always been very helpful in the past so hopefully it can help answer a query i've got. Basically we are a registered Lir with our own /19 range however we have been bought over by another company which also has its own allocation - both /19s are registered in our respective names, We are now in the position where we want to combine the networks and multihon to a couple of upstream providers and have geographically deceided to use one range for the North and the other for the south. I know that we must have at least 2 carriers lined up before applying which is no problem- How do Ripe view this with regard to assigning a single AS number? hope this makes sense, any comments appreciated Many Thanks Graham -- Network System Administrator NSL (Internet) Ltd, 26 Forth Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LH, UK tel + 44 (0)131 477 8215 fax + 44 (0)131 477 8223 http://www.nsl.net