[112823] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Redundant AS's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Fri Mar 20 04:44:57 2009
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:44:21 +0100
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20090319074418.00aca8c8@efes.iucc.ac.il> (Hank
	Nussbacher's message of "Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:50:36 +0200")
Cc: goemon@anime.net, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
* Hank Nussbacher:
> It takes me about 3-5 hours of work to track down and get an old
> unused ASN to be deallocated.  How about updating the 2010 charging
> model so that LIRs that return ASNs are compensated?
I don't think this is a good way of using RIR funds.  Why should the
old guys receive even more special treatment?  RIPE's charging scheme
already discriminates heavily against newcomers.