Re: Origin ASN seen vs Origin ASN in Whois Records Report?

[Joe Abley <jabley () hopcount ca>]

On 2008-11-24, at 13:10, Heather Schiller wrote:

> Joe Abley wrote:
> > On 23 Nov 2008, at 21:17, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> > > Presumably it's from the "Origin AS" field in WHOIS:
> > Ah, thanks (and also thanks to others who pointed that out off-list).
> > That seems like a weird anachronism, to be honest. Perhaps it's  
> > only because nobody has ever tried to use it for anything that  
> > there's never been any reason for the ARIN community to propose  
> > that the collection of such information be stopped.
> > Joe
>
> The policy is relatively new..

Yep, thanks to you and the others who pointed that out privately.

I think it's of limited utility, but this is not a policy list so I'm  
very happy to keep further reflections on that to myself :-)


Joe