[88691] in North American Network Operators' Group
a truly radical proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward B. DREGER)
Wed Feb 15 13:06:20 2006
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:05:50 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Edward B. DREGER" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Consider:
RIRs refuse to grant ASNs to dual-homed leaves. Transit providers
_must_ cooperate with each other. Hopefully they coalesce joint ASNs
and space responsibly before sending such merrily along to the global
table.
Voici, non-portable ASNs and "minimum height to ride" requirements for a
portable, personal ASN. This really isn't much more restrictive than
today's policies, and changing an ASN is easy for small leaves.
The biggest pitfall I see:
Imagine having to renumber when _any_ upstream changes. I propose that
this is reasonable for > /24, where such is the status quo. For <= /24
non-PI space, one could use non-coop space from a specific upstream --
again, the status quo.
On a related note:
Someone pointed out off-list that the "coop ASN" approach requires
creating a new ASN when one changes providers. Yes, but this still uses
no more ASNs (unused ones are returned, right?) than if each leaf
registered its own portable ASN.
Eddy
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