AS Number Registrations

[Member Services]

The number of AS numbers ARIN issues has increased steadily over the last
three years.  Members have expressed concern about this large increase in
AS number registrations.

	Issued in 1998 -- 915
	Issued in 1999 -- 1,685
	Issued in 2000 -- 1,596 (through July)

The vast majority of these AS numbers are issued to newly multi-homed
sites.  Is this increase in AS number registrations a concern to the
community and should ARIN policies be changed, as a result?

The ARIN AS number registration guidelines can be found at
http://www.arin.net/regserv/asnguide.htm and on the request template at
http://www.arin.net/regserv/templates/asntemplate.txt

ARIN would like your feedback on this issue.  Please post your comments
and suggestions to the public policy mailing list (ppml at arin.net).  Your
feedback will be included in the discussions at the upcoming public policy
meeting.

Information about the meeting can be found at
http://www.arin.net/announcements/memmeet.html

Information on how to subscribe to the ppml can be found at
http://www.arin.net/members/mailing/htm