Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:13:12AM -0400, Russ Housley: > I thought that the whole community would like to be aware of this status. > > Russ My understanding is that the registries have not been reassigning ASNs that are returns but were not allocated from IANA as part of a block. AS1 for example, would not be reallocated if it were returned. So, in theory there are far more available than this lets on. > >> From: Michelle Cotton <michelle.cotton@xxxxxxxxx> >> To: "iesg@xxxxxxxx" <iesg@xxxxxxxx> >> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:52:18 -0700 >> Subject: Status of the 16-bit AS Number space >> >> Dear IESG, >> >> This is to let you know what we now have fewer than 10 blocks of >> 16-bit AS Numbers left in the IANA free pool. >> >> Yesterday we allocated two blocks of 1,024 AS Numbers to ARIN, as per >> the Global Policy for Allocation of ASN Blocks to Regional Internet >> Registries, which was ratified by the ICANN board in July last year. >> >> <http://www.icann.org/en/general/global-policy-asn-blocks-31jul08-en.htm>http://www.icann.org/en/general/global-policy-asn-blocks-31jul08-en.htm >> >> The unallocated 16-bit AS Number space is now 54272-64511. The full >> registry can be viewed at: >> >> <http://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers/as-numbers.xml>http://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers/as-numbers.xml >> >> We agreed to notify the IESG when we got to this point in the AS >> Numbers registry. Please let me know if you have any questions or >> comments. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Michelle Cotton >> IANA > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf