[arin-ppml] Revised - Draft Policy ARIN-2021-3: Private AS Number and Unique Routing Policy Clarifications

[Owen DeLong]

> On Mar 22, 2022, at 13:39 , Jay Hennigan <jay at impulse.net> wrote:
> 
> On 3/8/22 06:51, ARIN wrote:
>> The following Draft Policy has been revised:
>> * ARIN-2021-3: Private AS Number and Unique Routing Policy Clarifications
>> Revised text is below and can be found at:
>> https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/2021_3/ <https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/2021_3/>
> 
> I concur that "peer" be substituted for "upstream provider" in the first statement below.
> 
> > To originate announcement of IP Number Resources via an accepted
> > protocol (such as Border Gateway Protocol) from an AS Number different > than that of its peer;
> 
> I think that the word "network" should be substituted for "site" below, as the multihoming may originate from multiple locations.
> 
> > To multihome a network with one or more Autonomous Systems; or
> 
> I'm not sure what value the third statement below offers that isn't covered by either of the first two, and it seems to weaken the case that public ASNs must be justified. I suggest removing it unless I'm missing
> a use case not covered by either of the previous two.
> 
> > To use an AS Number to interconnect with other Autonomous Systems.”

I’d be OK with that, but alternatively, I think the most efficient would be to simply remove the first two which are as near as I can tell entirely subsets of the third.

Owen