[119587] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Who has AS 1712?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Tue Nov 24 13:20:26 2009
From: John Curran <jcurran.bulk@me.com>
In-Reply-To: <75cb24520911230750y28cf48f4j925ebbfdb1296cee@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:19:51 -0500
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> In all seriousness though, how does this get fixed?
It's being addressed now, but requires both RIPE and ARIN to work with =
the respective ASN holders. Standby for an update once that step has =
been completed. The more interesting question is how this could happen, =
and we're busy looking into that at present.=20
The AS 1707 assignment goes back to Internic days (i.e. pre-1997) but =
the remainder of the ASN block (AS 1708 to AS 1728) is marked "assigned =
by ARIN" at the IANA but had not actually been assigned until very =
recently. (ARIN did a reconciliation in July 2009 of all ASNs marked as =
=93assigned by ARIN=94 with our own internal records to find out whether =
any holes existed, and began assigning such ASNs in August 2009, =
including AS numbers in the range 1708 thru 1726).
We're working with RIPE to determine how these numbers were put into =
usage via the RIPE DB, and will come up with appropriate steps to =
prevent recurrence once we fully understand the root cause.
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
