On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 08:48:43PM +0100, Daniel Roesen wrote:
I am looking from a RIPE point of view. Lately I see ISPs popping out of the ground requesting ASNs and having actually only 1 upstream (there are 2 upstreams in the routing database, but in the real world there is only 1 upstream).
RIPE checks new ASN assignments after 6 months for evidence of adherence to the rules. I've personally seen this happen for a customer ASN.
This is good, but it should also happen for ASN's that are already active. An check for active use of the ASN and conforming to the current rules every 6 months should be a nice thing. This way old unused ASN's can be recycled easilier. Probably RIPE will implement such a thing when there routing registry consistency check software is complete. -- Cliff Albert <cliff@oisec.net>