Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

Any org viewing ASNs as a scarce resource is wasting money keeping ASNs.
Any org that financially broken will probably not continue to pay it's
bills in the long run.

I believe these are the exception and not the rule.  Like I said, the
long-term answer to this is 32bit ASNs.  I don't think hoarding will account
for a significant portion of the ASN space in the long run.

Owen


--On Friday, November 19, 2004 6:48 AM -0600 "J.A. Terranson" 
<alif.terranson () gmail com> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:28:55 +0100, Jeroen Massar <jeroen () unfix org>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 08:18 +0100, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote:
> >
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> > > On 2004-11-16, at 02.24, Owen DeLong wrote:
> > >
> > > > ASNs issued today are subject to annual renewal.  While this is a
> > > > small charge and doesn't go up based on the number of ASNs, so, not
> > > > 100% effective at reclaiming all unused resources, it does, at least,
> > > > reclaim resources in use by defunct organizations that are no longer
> > > > paying the maintenance for them.
>
> Yes, but what about the (dozens, hundreds?) of entities that are
> hoarding (and renewing) ASNs?  These unused resources are gone forever
> - since they are seen as a scarce resource, they are kept artificially
> alive (even though the orgs know full well there is neither a use nor
> a justification for them).
>
>
> //Alif



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