[109465] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Origin ASN seen vs Origin ASN in Whois Records Report?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Mon Nov 24 13:14:22 2008
From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
To: Heather Schiller <heather.schiller@verizonbusiness.com>
In-Reply-To: <492AEE1B.6000602@verizonbusiness.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:14:03 -0500
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>, info@BGPmon.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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
