On 10 November 2015 at 14:37, Aftab Siddiqui <[email protected]> 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
