Re: ASN Name of the week

[Carlos Friacas <cfriacas () fccn pt>]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:

> > www.1800gotjunk.com.  They're all over Canada and the US (at the very
> > least).  It's a very successful franchise operation.
> >
> > I don't know why they need an AS, but I can say they did a bang-up
> > job of hauling the detritus out of a condo I used to own after the
> > renter abandoned it.
>         Maybe they'll take away all your unwanted SPAM and DDOS attack
> traffic. :)
>
>         Or maybe they are getting large enough that they'll be moving
> out of their colo centers and into one of their own, multi homed. I just
> multihomed my house and might apply for an ASN for it... :)  (When is
> ASNV6 coming?)
>
>                 Tuc/TBOH

Hi,

ASNV6, no clue... but 32-bit ASN are already prepared, at least in 
the registry world.

http://www.arin.net/registration/templates/asn-request.txt

---------------------------------
Template: ARIN-ASN-REQUEST-4.0
**  As of July 2006
**  Detailed instructions are located below the template.

01. Org ID:
02. Org Name:
03. AS Name:

    ** Do you want to specifically request a 4-byte AS number
    ** instead of a traditional 2-byte AS number? Indicate
    ** YES or NO. If you are unsure, see detailed instructions
    ** for an explanation of 2-byte vs. 4-byte AS numbers.
04. 4-byte AS number:

(...)


Cheers,

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