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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: 16 vs 32 bit ASNs [Re: BBC does IPv6 ;) (Was: large multi-site enterprises and PI]
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:13:55AM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > We really don't want to arrive at a situation > where it becomes increasingly difficult to obtain an AS number for > those who legitimately need one. What will be interesting is the definition of "legitimate" in this context. I'm sure the ISPs will push for rising the monetary bar to "regulate" their market. See e.g. the inherent anti-competetive billing policy at RIPE where every year, a newcomer has to pay more for allocated/assigned resources. So I guess they will make it just more expensive. This is btw the major flaw I see with Pekka's ASN-derrived PI prefix draft which limits it to the first 32K ASNs. This just makes those ASN "golden" and thus open to $BIGNUM $$$ on the "grey market". Seen that way, it's again just another attempt on "make it more expensive (as in real money!) to be able to multihome". Not that I say that this is Pekka's intention. Regards, Daniel -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: [email protected] -- [email protected] -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0
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