[112828] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Redundant AS's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Fri Mar 20 13:58:15 2009
In-Reply-To: <m2zlfj3pyl.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:58:03 -0400
From: William Herrin <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>> Why not go after low lying fruit first? =A0If an ASN was assigned years
>> ago and hasn't appeared in the RIB for the past year that ASN should
>> be reclaimed. =A0Send warning emails to the registered contacts as well
>> as to the assigning LIR and after 3 months - just reclaim it.
>
> because property is unused publicly does not affect the rights of its
> owner(s). =A0otherwise old car collector wannabes could have a heyday.
Randy,
A. AS numbers are not property.
B. If they were property (and they're not), then at least in NANOG's
region there are adequate laws regarding escheat of unclaimed
property. I interpret this to be what Hank was going for: attempt to
contact anyone with a registered but apparently unused AS number and
"escheat" the ones that go unclaimed back to the registries.
Whether or not this is a worthwhile activity is an entirely different
question for which I intentionally decline to offer an opinion.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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