[6bone] Re: RIPE and IPv6 ASN

[pekkas@netcore.fi (Pekka Savola)]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Arien Vijn wrote:
> > Thank you for your request for an AS number, but with IPv6 you do not
> > need to
> > use any AS numbers nor route objects.
> > 
> > Please have a look at the IPv6 documentation at the following link:
> > http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ipv6.html
> > 
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------->
> > 
> 
> 
> From a technical point of view RIPE's reply is not accurate indeed. How can
> you talk BGP without an AS number? That has nothing to do with IPv6 as such.

Incorrect.  There is a private ASN space, see:

http://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers

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