[policy-wg] Change in ASN policy: Eligibility criteria Section 4

[Mark Tinka]

Name:  Mark Tinka
Organisation: Africa Online Swaziland

Policy Affected: ASN (afpol-as200407-000)
Date: 16.04.2005

Proposal:
Precision in ASN policy documents about Assignment criteria
** Section 4 of the policy document

Was:

"4.0 Eligibility for an AS Number assignment:
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There are a limited number of available AS Numbers. Therefore,
it is important to determine which sites require unique AS
Numbers and which do not. Sites that do not require a unique
AS Number should use one or more of the AS Numbers reserved
for private use. Those numbers are: 64512 through 65535 (RFC 1930).

In order to qualify for an AS number, the requesting organization
must fulfill the following requirements:

o A unique routing policy (its policy differs from its border gateway peers).

o A multi-homed site.

o An organization will also be eligible if it can demonstrate
that it will meet the above criteria upon receiving an ASN
(or within a reasonably short time thereafter).

All requests for ASNs under these criteria will be evaluated using
the guidelines described in RFC1930 "Guidelines for the creation,
selection and registration of an Autonomous System (AS)". "


Should be:

"4.0 Eligibility for an AS Number assignment:
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There are a limited number of available AS Numbers. Therefore, it is
important to determine which sites require unique AS Numbers and which
do not. Sites that do not require a unique AS Number should use one or
more of the AS Numbers reserved for private use. Those numbers are:
64512 through 65535 (RFC 1930).

In order to qualify for an AS number, the requesting organization must
fulfill the following requirements:

o A unique routing policy (its policy differs from its border gateway
peers).

o A multi-homed site.

o An organization will also be eligible if it can demonstrate that it
will meet the above criteria upon receiving an ASN (or within a
reasonably short time thereafter).

o Be an AfriNIC member in a good standing* (End-User or LIR type)

All requests for ASNs under these criteria will be evaluated using the
guidelines described in RFC1930 "Guidelines for the creation,
selection and registration of an Autonomous System (AS)"."

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Incentive:

The original policy do not give precision on the membership criteria
for ASN assignment. To better control this resource assignment
Organisation using ASN must be specifically identified by AfriNIC.

Mark.