Re: Why does Sprint have address filters again?

[Karl Denninger <karl () mcs net>]

On Sun, May 31, 1998 at 04:39:30PM -0400, Jamie Scheinblum wrote:
> The last CIDR report I have in my in-box states there are 3606 AS numbers in
> the routing table.  So, my first question is at what point does ARIN reclaim
> AS numbers?
>
> (comparison: 2680 last September and 3075 at the beginning of the year)
>
> That's a lot of money Arin rakes in on un-used AS numbers.
>
> I understand that ARIN probably doesn't want to get in the middle of routing
> policies, but by limiting when you can receive an AS, I don't understand why
> they couldn't limit when you lose it.
>
> Second Q: How many AS numbers are available in total?

Currently an ASN is a 16-bit number.

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