Aled,
You could come up with a policy proposal to change the wording. With that’s said I wouldn’t say this is required. This is a common sense issue. Naturally if you can prove you’re multihoming the future network, so you have two ASNa that will peer with $NEWAS and they are happy to confirm it, I wouldn’t see a reason for this to be an issue, you might want to escalate it to within the NCC so the manager of said analyst could look into it.

If you currently have only one peer and no solid plans to immediately turn up the other one for the new AS, so it is multihomed, I’d say the analyst is right in causing a fuss about it - ASNs are allocated for multihoming.

With Kind Regards, 
Dominik Nowacki 
 
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On 7 May 2019, at 13:19, Aled Morris via address-policy-wg <address-policy-wg@ripe.net> wrote:

Hi all

I'm in the process of helping a startup ISP get RIPE membership and resources and have hit against a little bit of poor wording in the AS guidelines RIPE-679, specifically:

A network must be multihomed in order to qualify for an AS Number.

The application for an AS number has been delayed because the NCC analyst working on the ticket is claiming the ISP has to be already multihomed before an AS can be issued.

This interpretation doesn't make any sense to me.  Surely the intention to become multihomed should be the requirement for obtaining an AS number?

I don't even see how you can be properly multihomed if you don't have an AS number.  Are we supposed to implement some kind of NAT multihoming first?

Can we look to change the wording in RIPE-679 to make this clear?

Aled