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Re: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry

  • From: Roland Dobbins
  • Date: Fri Dec 01 14:16:21 2006
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On Dec 1, 2006, at 4:50 AM, Andy Davidson wrote:
RIPE will be accepting requests for 32-bit ASNs from 1/1/07, according to an email to ncc-services two weeks ago. It does not feel too early to start to understand what we must do to as a community to guarantee ubiquity of reachable networks.
Is there any possibility we can now get a block of ASNs set aside for documentation purposes, akin to example.com and/or the TEST network? A block of ASNs for this purpose would be very helpful for folks writing docs, would reduce the possibility of 'cut-and-paste hijacking', and would also allow more accurate documentation (many products and tools have special handling for the designated private ASNs which make documentation difficult).

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