NRPM Section 5 - Notice of intent to make editorial update

[ARIN]

The ARIN Advisory Council (AC) met on 19 February 2015 and requested 
that the following proposed editorial update to the Number Resource 
Policy Manual (NRPM) be posted for review by the community.

NRPM Section 5. AS Numbers

Current text regarding numbers for private use:

Sites that do not require a unique AS Number should use one or more of 
the AS Numbers reserved for private use. Those numbers are: 64512 
through 65535.

Proposed correction:

Sites that do not require a unique AS Number should use one or more of 
the AS Numbers reserved for private use. Those numbers are: 64512 
through 65534 and 4200000000 through 4294967294 inclusive.

For reference, links the the RFCs in question.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6996
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7300

Between the two RFCs the status of 65535 has been clarified and a new 
much larger range of 32-bit AS Numbers has been added to the Private-Use 
AS Number Range.

The process for editorial updates to the NRPM is found in Part One, 
Section 3.1, paragraph 3 of the PDP:
"Changes to policy that are purely editorial and non-substantial in 
nature are outside the scope of the full Policy Development Process and 
may only be made with 30 days public notice followed by the concurrence 
of both the ARIN Advisory Council and ARIN Board of Trustees that the 
changes are non-substantial in nature."

Your feedback on this issue is appreciated.

The review period will close on 27 March 2015.

The Number Resource Policy Manual is available at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#five

The ARIN Policy Development Process is available at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp.html

Regards,

Communications and Member Services
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)