Re: Who has AS 1712?

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Christopher Morrow wrote:
>
> > > how to detect if there are more instances?
> >
> > o Should some form of 'scrape routeviews before assignment' happen at
> > the RIR? (if you don't like o RV, pick another 2-3 sources of data)
> > o How do you make sure each RIR does this act?
> > o Should the customer check public data sources before acceptance?
> > o Is there a 30 day revoke/return dance for Number Resources?
>
> Checking "global BGP" only works if the ASN is being announced at that
> instant.  That ought to be one of the due diligence steps, but so should
> checking the various RIR whois servers.  Lots of ASNs have been assigned but
> aren't visible in the global table.

sure, pick 2-3 ways to check was my point... I ain't writin' RIR
policy in nanog maillist traffic :) I presume also there's some '80%
check is good enough' standard that's applied along the way because I
doubt you'll ever get 100% certainty in this sort of thing, sadly.

-Chris

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