Re: as numbers

[Hank Nussbacher <hank () efes iucc ac il>]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Randy Bush wrote:

Geoff,

"Of the 32,557 assigned AS numbers, some 19,859 are advertised, while
12,698 have been allocated in the past, but are not currently advertised
in the BGP routing table."

I would have liked to see how well the RIRs are at recovering unused
ASNs, if at all.  For example ARIN has a 30 day policy:
http://www.arin.net/registration/templates/asn-request.txt

Do the RIRs *ever* revoke an ASN after the customer does not follow the
RIR stated rules?  Would love to see numbers on that issue.  No wonder the
ASN pool will expire in 2010.

-Hank

> > geoff has a quite good article on antonymous systems, usage, ... at
> > <http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2005-08/as.html>.
>
> geoff,
>
> why not assume
>   o all speakers will not transition at the same time, but
>   o before the first > 0:xxxx is issued/used that all will
>     transition?
>
> i would think this is operationally viable.
>
> randy