Re: [address-policy-wg] 2014-03 Policy Proposal Withdrawn (Remove Multihoming Requirement for AS Number Assignments)

On 10 November 2015 at 14:37, Aftab Siddiqui <aftab.siddiqui@gmail.com> wrote:

Problem is the extremely low number of 16b ASN in the pool of every RIR. Although RIPE NCC has a quarantine policy (if am not mistaken) with 000+ ASN in it (NCC can confirm). Strict assignment policy would be great but BGP Communities can be simple justification to get 16b ASN and bypass any hurdles isn't it?

I would expect that anyone who gets 16b ASN transits some downstream. Otherwise it's hard to argue you need globally visible BGP communities. -- ++ytti