[DBWG] can't create ROA with ASN0 - myafrinic

[Amreesh Phokeer]

Hi all,

Thank you for your input. 

In fact, we check the status of the AS against the IANA whois database and reject anything tagged as reserved.

For e.g. we would reject AS4200000000
Amreeshs-MacBook-Pro:~ amreesh$ whois -hwhois.iana.org AS4200000000
% IANA WHOIS server
% for more information on IANA, visit http://www.iana.org
% This query returned 1 object

as-block:     4200000000-4294967294
organisation: Reserved for Private Use

descr:        Reserved for Private Use

source:       IANA

We need to put an exception to this rule for AS0. 

Working on that.


Regards,
Amreesh

> On 10 Jun 2019, at 21:12, Job Snijders <job at ntt.net> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> It would be beneficial if AFRINIC allows one to specify “0” as the origin ASN for a given IP resource. Indeed the ASN is reserved, but that shouldn’t preclude anyone from listing it in their ROA.
> 
> It would also be good if AFRINIC rejects private ASNs from being specified in this field. Specifically 23456, 64496-131071, and 4200000000-4294967295 inclusive.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Job
> 
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 10:16 Frank Habicht <geier at geier.ne.tz> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In MyAfriNIC, I can't create ROA with ASN0 - for my IXP peering LAN
> prefixes (196.223.5.0/24 and 2001:43f8::/48)
> 
> "The AS Number you have specified is a reserved one!"
> 
> shouldn't be like this, or?
> It's not really that much reserved to be excluded from ROA creation.
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6483#section-4
> 
> Thanks,
> Frank
> 
> yes: I don't want these to get advertised, by anyone.
> 
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