Re: [Idr] new ID on expansion of private use ASN range

[Randy Bush <[e-mail]>]

> So Chris, why does clothing store with 1.5k endsites want those ASNs 
> publicly registered.  I tend toward why not, but they frequently seem to 
> not want them publicly registered.  They clam it has something to do 
> with security.  I don't buy it, but on the other had it is their
> network.

it's the public's resource

> A lot of enterprise networks are starting to use BGP internally, but 
> they seems to only want to deal with eBGP and no iBGP peerings or only 
> very limited iBGP.  So they give every router or pair of site routers 
> its own Private ASN.  I seen some with fairly elaborate routing policy, 
> that would qualify as unique routing policy.  But many don't they just 
> used Private ASN to avoid iBGP, without any unique routing policy.

i see lots of silly things.  i am not inclined to change to world to
accommodate them.

> But using an ASN so you don't have to deal with iBGP isn't justified by 
> the unique routing policy criteria of RFC 1930.

or by good design practice

randy