[112824] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Redundant AS's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Fri Mar 20 06:40:28 2009
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:40:15 +0200 (IST)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
In-Reply-To: <878wn060t6.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: goemon@anime.net, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * 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.
I disagree.
Older LIRs have more allocations which compensates for the time factor of
the algorithm. Older allocations need almost no human handling by the RIR
vs a new LIR of a year which has a oodles of tickets that need human
intervention.
-Hank
