On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 12:20 AM Nachiket Kondhalkar via ARIN-PPML <arin-ppml@arin.net> wrote: > The primary motivation for this change was that both RIPE and APNIC > noticed a large number of assigned ASNs that were not being advertised > in the Global routing tables. Approximately 21% of all ASNs are > functionally not participating in global routing.
Howdy, AS numbers are not IP addresses. There's no shortage. There's no rational projection that has us going into a shortage within the next century. At current rates of consumption, we'll run out of IPv6 addresses first. More importantly, their use or non-use has no impact on the cost of global routing. You use one AS number. You use 10 AS numbers. More or less the same resources in the router are consumed. AS numbers have a small cost impact on the registry recording them in terms of staff time, computing operations and recuperation of software development and maintenance costs. ARIN found it wise to roll these costs into the overhead membership fee rather than charge for them separately unless the AS is the registrant's only resource. They previously charged a separate fee per AS number if you were not a LIR. That was also reasonable. As long as the fee is not outrageously large it's six of one and half a dozen of the other. When I say "small cost," bear in mind that the RIRs do not benefit from the economy of scale that the DNS operators do, so you should expect an RIR's small cost to be more than what it costs to hold a DNS domain name. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/ _______________________________________________ ARIN-PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List (ARIN-PPML@arin.net). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: https://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact i...@arin.net if you experience any issues.
