Re: [Idr] WGLC on draft-ietf-idr-as-private-reservation-00

[Martin Millnert <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 22:44 +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 15/12/2012 01:40, Warren Kumari wrote:
> > (and I sure hope I'm not the poor sod who gets allocated 4200000 or 42000000 or 420000000… :-P )
> 
> or anything in the range between 420000 -> 429999.  This falls bang in the
> middle of the likely range that will be assigned to ARIN.  Let me hold my
> nose for a moment and use asdot format:  as420000 == 6.26784, and I can see
> this asn being assigned in the foreseeable future in the ARIN service region.
> 
> 900000-999999 seems to be well outside the range of any of the current RIRs
> (using current allocation techniques, there could be 6 more RIRs before
> there would be any interference).

This is a very valid point; operational simplicity let's youtube stay
reachable at night.

A more clear motivation of why 100000 private ASNs would be insufficient
would be interesting to read.

/M