[arin-ppml] 2-byte ASN policy

[John Curran]

On Apr 6, 2016, at 4:17 PM, Bill Buhler <bill at tknow.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the clarification John,
>  
> So I understand you, regarding IPv4 you are recycling the deadbeat resources already.
>  
> My impression though is that you aren’t doing the same with 2-byte ASN? I think it would be good policy to begin reclamation of those resources.

We are recycling ASN’s that are returned - after the hold period we confirm that 
they’re not in active routing and then will reissue if someone makes an explicit
request for a 2-byte ASN.

> I was very grateful a few years ago to be able to get a 2-byte ASN because one of my two upstreams stated they weren’t able to handle a 4 byte ASN, I hope they have corrected that by now. But I understand being stuck between the old and new and it’s nice if there are resources for those edge cases.

Understood.

Thanks!
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN