Guidelines for AS numbers

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Folks,
At the last BGP WG meeting we agreed to ask the IESG to advance
Guidelines for AS number to a Proposed Standard. Appended is
the announcement of the revised I-D. I'd like to put a two
weeks deadline for comments (2/15). After that I'll follow the
agreement we reached at the WG meeting.
Yakov.

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       Title     : Guidelines for creation, selection, and registration
                   of an Autonomous System (AS)
       Author(s) : J. Hawkinson, T. Bates
       Filename  : draft-ietf-idr-autosys-guide-01.txt
       Pages     : 11
       Date      : 01/30/1995

This draft discusses when it is appropriate to register and utilize an
Autonomous System (AS), and lists criteria for such.  ASes are the unit of
routing policy in the modern world of exterior routing, and are
specifically applicable to protocols like EGP (Exterior Gateway Protocol,
now at historical status; see [EGP]), BGP (Border Gateway Protocol, the
current de facto standard for inter-AS routing; see [BGP-4]), and IDRP (The
OSI Inter-Domain Routing Protocol, which the Internet will eventually adopt
when BGP becomes obsolete; see [IDRP]). It should be noted that the IDRP
equivalent of an AS is the RDI, or Routing Domain Identifier.

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