[arin-ppml] 2-byte and 4-byte ASNs

[Martin Hannigan]

I don't believe that they need a policy (at the IANA and for the RIR')
to take less, previous policy at the IANA was recommended by the RIR's
to be interpreted as maximums vs. absolute and this would be likely be
acceptable here as well based on the precedent and the fact that
people are asking about it. Whether that is right or wrong, thats how
it works.

Interesting that we're still talking about this:

    http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/2005-December/004264.html

My interpretation of the meeting interest was largely apathy and "stay
the course".

Best,

-M<


On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Leif Sawyer <lsawyer at gci.com> wrote:
> Jason -
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> My responses out-of-order to the questions (ignoring your answers)
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> 2/3:   I would be in support of policy that provided  IANA with direction to
> equally distribute the remaining 2-byte ASNs to the RIRs.
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>      Once that has taken place, it can be left to the individual RIR to
> adapt policy as they see fit.
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> 1:  If my memory serves, current ARIN (operational) policy is to  "Offer
> 4-byte first, when no preference is given,  and offer a fall-back to 2-byte"
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> and if that is correct, I see no need to change this policy.
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> -Leif
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> From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net] On
> Behalf Of Jason Schiller
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 12:21 PM
> To: arin-ppml at arin.net
> Subject: [arin-ppml] 2-byte and 4-byte ASNs
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> I wanted to summarize what I heard at the open mic and give the wider
> community a chance to comment.
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> Questions:
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> 1. Is it in the best interest of the Internet for ARIN to give out 2-byte
> ASNs by default?
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> Should we use up the 2-byte ASNs, or try to conserve them for those who need
> them?
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> 2. Should an RIR be forced to burn through 2-byte ASNs in order to qualify
> to get additional ASNs?
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> Should an RIR that has used all the 2-byte ASN be prevented from getting
> more ASNs until their total utilization is higher from giving out more
> 4-byte ASNs?
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> 3.  There are just under 500 2-byte ASNs left in the IANA pool.  Should the
> RIRs each get 99 of these?  Or should the next requestor take all of the
> 2-byte ASNs and the balance of the block of 1024 in four-byte ASNs?
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