[112802] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Redundant AS's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (goemon@anime.net)
Wed Mar 18 15:42:10 2009
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:40:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: goemon@anime.net
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20090318095944.04fdb070@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> At 08:18 AM 18-03-09 +0100, Henk Uijterwaal wrote:
>>> It's a bit dated now, but the RIPE report, ASN MIA, sounds like what
>>> you're looking for...
>>> www.apnic.net/meetings/21/docs/sigs/routing/routing-pres-uijterwaal-asn-mia.ppt
>> When I look at this more recently, the conclusion still seems to be
>> valid: we'll run out of 16 bit ASN's somewhere in 2011 to 2013. There
>> are a lot of unused ASN's out there. Recovering them will postpone the
>> problem by a few years but it won't solve it. The basic problem with
>> recovery is how to decide if an ASN is really no longer used/needed.
>> There is (still) no mechanism to do this.
>> Henk
> Why not go after low lying fruit first? If an ASN was assigned years ago and
> hasn't appeared in the RIB for the past year that ASN should be reclaimed.
> Send warning emails to the registered contacts as well as to the assigning
> LIR and after 3 months - just reclaim it.
How about just nailing everyone who has invalid contact info? That would
certainly be incentive to get it updated. Nothing else seems to work.
-Dan
