[109464] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Origin ASN seen vs Origin ASN in Whois Records Report?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Heather Schiller)
Mon Nov 24 13:10:45 2008
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:10:35 -0500
From: Heather Schiller <heather.schiller@verizonbusiness.com>
In-reply-to: <4A6ED636-C162-438C-AB33-63426B0D0623@hopcount.ca>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>, info@BGPmon.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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.. (Spring 2007) and adopted by the ARIN
community after vetting at 2 meetings.. It's optional, so I can't
imagine why anyone would propose that ARIN stop collecting this information.
http://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2006_3.html
It may be that it's "newness" helps w/ the accuracy.. only time will tell.
--heather
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