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

[Jeffrey Haas <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 12:16:15AM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> I'd like to see a good discussion on 'why not just get public asns for
> all this sort of stuff'
> If there never were private-asns, if asns were as plentiful as rain,
> why NOT just use them instead? What would be required to go on as we
> want, without making making more private-asns?

The answer probably is something along the lines of "ARIN charges $500 for a
registration and $100 per year for 'maintenance'".  Modulo waiving part of
this if you're already paying for address space.  (And I'm only picking on
ARIN because they're the first site I checked.)

Frankly I'd rather see the RIRs have *4-byte* AS number pricing in line with 
the cost of registering a domain ($20 US) and then kill this draft.  (Note,
also spoken as someone who was going to author a similar draft.)

This would then move the desired feature to such tom-foolery as "AS hiding"
as a feature, but such things don't require standardization.

-- Jeff