[rpd] New Policy Proposal Received - "Multihoming not required for ASN (AFPUB-2019-ASN-DRAFT01)"

[Fernando Frediani]

Well yes that we all know works technically but that's not the only point.
Now a days most companies will not be able to assign sufficient 
resources to a downstream customers so having their own PI space makes 
it more flexible and they can have as many necessary for their full 
operation.
Other reasons are: in many places you may not have access to two 
providers but you may still need to have the PI space for example to 
serve the local area, to have stable addresses, so in the future when 
more upstreams you are ready to add it to the operation.
Also you may still have one upstream but you may be able to connect to a 
local Internet Exchange or even to a local partner via  Private 
Interconection.

The requirement for Multihoming for requesting an ASN have been removed 
in other RIRs which in my view is a natural thing so I believe this is 
something that is not needed now a day as many aspects are different 
from when it was made in this way.

Regards
Fernando

On 28/03/2019 10:07, Jaco Kroon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If you're not multihoming your upstream can simply point a static 
> route towards you.  No need for an ASN.
>
> Even if you're multihoming that's still possible, but in that case 
> you're more likely to want the control that having an ASN gives you.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Jaco
>
> On 2019/03/25 17:17, Fernando Frediani wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I want to give my support to the proposal for "Multhoming not 
>> required for ASN" (AFPUB-2019-ASN-DRAFT01).
>>
>> As the author states in the summary and justification now a days 
>> requiring Multihoming is something obsolete and nothing something 
>> really necessary.
>>
>> With the exhaustion of IPv4 it becomes increasing important, 
>> specially for newer companies to have their own IPv4 addresses as 
>> they will hardly be able to have any reasonable size of allocations 
>> from upstream providers as it used to be before. As also mentioned 
>> one may wishes to have their own allocation and stable addresses, 
>> will not depend from upstream providers and be able to announce their 
>> PI space.
>>
>> Fernando
>>
>>
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