On Tue, 11 Aug 2015, Job Snijders wrote:
I've noted as an argument opposing this proposal: "An adversary could try to deplete the pool of available ASNs." If someone has a workable suggestion how to resolve that in policy, I am all ears, but I wouldn't mind a pragmatic approach where we just trust our community and deal with issues if and when they arise.
Cap the number of ASNs handed out until the policy is evaluated. RIPE is allowed to hand out $NUMBER ASNs under this policy, when $NUMBER/2 has been reached, please come back and tell us how it went. If $NUMBER is in the 10k-50k range, and we're talking 32bit ASNs, we haven't used up a huge amount of this limited resource. Also, having an ASN costs money per year, right? So if someone wants to sit on 1000 ASNs, this will actually cost significant money? -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se