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2 IDR J. Haas
3 Internet-Draft Juniper Networks
4 Intended status: Informational J. Mitchell
5 Expires: September 21, 2014 Microsoft Corporation
6 March 20, 2014
8 Reservation of Last Autonomous System (AS) Numbers
9 draft-ietf-idr-last-as-reservation-04
11 Abstract
13 This document reserves two Autonomous System numbers (ASNs) at the
14 end of the 16 bit and 32 bit ranges, described in this document as
15 "Last ASNs" and provides guidance to implementers and operators on
16 their use.
18 Status of This Memo
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50 1. Introduction
52 IANA has reserved the last Autonomous System Number (ASN), 65535, of
53 the 16 bit autonomous system number range for over a decade with the
54 intention that it not be used by network operators running BGP
55 [RFC4271]. Since the introduction of BGP Support for Four-Octet AS
56 Number Space [RFC6793], IANA has also reserved the last ASN of the 32
57 bit autonomous system number range, 4294967295. This reservation has
58 been documented in the IANA Autonomous System Numbers Registry
59 [IANA.AS]. Although these "Last ASNs" border on Private Use ASN
60 [RFC6996] ranges, they are not defined or reserved as Private Use
61 ASNs by [IANA.AS]. This document describes the reasoning for
62 reserving these Last ASNs and provides guidance both to operators and
63 to implementers on their use.
65 2. Requirements Language
67 The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
68 "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
69 document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].
71 3. Reasons for Last ASNs Reservation
73 A subset of the BGP communities of ASN 65535, the last ASN of the 16
74 bit range, are reserved for use by Well-known communities as
75 described in [RFC1997] and [IANA.WK]. Although this is not currently
76 true of ASN 4294967295, if there is a future need for another Special
77 Use ASN that is not designed to be globally routable, or the
78 associated BGP communities of such an ASN, ASN 4294967295 could be a
79 valid candidate for such purpose. This document does not prescribe
80 any such Special Use to this ASN at the time of publication.
82 4. Operational Considerations
84 Operators SHOULD NOT use these Last ASNs as if they are Private Use
85 ASNs or for any other purpose. Operational use of these Last ASNs
86 could have undesirable results. For example; use of AS 65535 as if
87 it were a Private Use ASN, may result in inadvertent use of BGP Well-
88 known Community values [IANA.WK], causing undesireable routing
89 behavior.
91 These last ASNs MUST NOT be advertised to the global Internet within
92 AS_PATH or AS4_PATH attributes. Operators that choose to do
93 filtering of Private Use ASNs within the AS_PATH and AS4_PATH
94 attributes SHOULD also filter these Last ASNs.
96 5. Implementation Considerations
98 While these Last ASNs are reserved, they remain valid ASNs from a BGP
99 protocol perspective. Therefore, implementations of BGP [RFC4271]
100 SHOULD NOT treat the use of these Last ASNs as any type of protocol
101 error. However, implementations MAY generate a local warning message
102 indicating improper use of a reserved ASN.
104 Implementations that provide tools that filter Private Use ASNs
105 within the AS_PATH and AS4_PATH attributes MAY also include these
106 Last ASNs.
108 6. IANA Considerations
110 [Note to IANA, TO BE REMOVED BEFORE PUBLICATION: IANA please update
111 the reservations for values 65535 and 4294967295 in the three
112 registries mentioned below to reference this document. Please note
113 at the time of this comment the "Special-Purpose AS Numbers registry"
114 has not yet been created but should be before publication of this
115 document.]
117 IANA has reserved last Autonomous System number 65535 from the
118 "16-bit Autonomous System Numbers" registry for the reasons described
119 in this document.
121 IANA has reserved last Autonomous System number 65535 from the
122 "16-bit Autonomous System Numbers" registry for the reasons described
123 in this document.
125 IANA has also reserved last Autonomous System number 4294967295 from
126 the "32-bit Autonomous System Numbers" registry for the reasons
127 described in this document.
129 This reservation has been documented in the IANA Autonomous System
130 Numbers Registry [IANA.AS].
132 This reservation has also been documented in the IANA Special-Purpose
133 AS Numbers Registry as described by [I-D.housley-number-registries].
135 7. Security Considerations
137 This document does not introduce any additional security concerns in
138 regards to usage of Last ASNs. Although the BGP protocol is designed
139 to allow usage of these Last ASNs, security issues related to BGP
140 implementation errors could be triggered by Last ASN usage.
142 8. References
144 8.1. Normative References
146 [I-D.housley-number-registries]
147 Housley, R., "Internet Numbers Registries", draft-housley-
148 number-registries-04 (work in progress), February 2014.
150 [IANA.AS] IANA, , "Autonomous System (AS) Numbers", March 2014,
151 .
153 [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
154 Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
156 [RFC4271] Rekhter, Y., Li, T., and S. Hares, "A Border Gateway
157 Protocol 4 (BGP-4)", RFC 4271, January 2006.
159 [RFC6793] Vohra, Q. and E. Chen, "BGP Support for Four-Octet
160 Autonomous System (AS) Number Space", RFC 6793, December
161 2012.
163 8.2. Informative References
165 [IANA.WK] IANA, , "Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Well-known
166 Communities", March 2014, .
169 [RFC1997] Chandrasekeran, R., Traina, P., and T. Li, "BGP
170 Communities Attribute", RFC 1997, August 1996.
172 [RFC6996] Mitchell, J., "Autonomous System (AS) Reservation for
173 Private Use", BCP 6, RFC 6996, July 2013.
175 Appendix A. Acknowledgements
177 The authors would like to thank Michelle Cotton and Elwyn Davis for
178 encouraging the proper documentation of the reservation of these ASNs
179 and David Farmer for his contributions to the document.
181 Authors' Addresses
183 Jeffrey Haas
184 Juniper Networks
186 Email: jhaas@juniper.net
187 Jon Mitchell
188 Microsoft Corporation
189 One Microsoft Way
190 Redmond, WA 98052
191 USA
193 Email: Jon.Mitchell@microsoft.com