Re: Why does Sprint have address filters again?

[Avi Freedman <freedman () netaxs com>]

> Yes, and that's for the entirely time-consuming entering your name and a
> number in a database (can you say "default nextval()").
>
> One has to wonder just where the authority for THAT one comes from.
>
> Karl Denninger (karl () MCS Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin

As a general idea, I don't have a problem with having some resistor
to demand for AS numbers, but $500 probably isn't much of a resistor.

But clearly it can take $100 or $200 of time to evaluate a request,
trace topology, and/or verify with the future upstreams the validity.

Avi