Re: economic value of low AS numbers

[Keegan Holley <keegan.holley () sungard com>]

2011/11/17 Dave Hart <davehart () gmail com>

> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 18:55, Keegan Holley <keegan.holley () sungard com>
> wrote:
> > I suppose I can't argue with that, but anyone technical enough to know
> > what an AS is should know better.  Also, would it really count?  What if
> I
> > opened a small ISP in some carrier hotel and paid 1000 bucks for AS 1.
>  I'm
> > not sure I'd want to sign a contract with someone dumb enough to think I
> > was the first company on the internet.
>
> Did you intend to say the first autonomous system number assigned for
> use on ARPAnet?
>
> Pedantically yours,
I have to admit I wasn't sure.  I know ARPAnet predated BGP and EGP I
believe so I wasn't sure if there were ASN's then.