[120144] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More ASN collissions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Thu Dec 10 13:52:46 2009
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:51:29 +0000
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On Dec 11, 2009, at 1:35 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:
> As always, good research by renesys.
What happens when an ASN is requested, and it's discovered that said ASN is=
already in use by an unauthorized network, and that some proportion of the=
Internet are accepting it due to a lack of appropriate routing policy? Is=
there a process to try and reclaim said ASN via persuasion, or some jurisd=
ictionally-appropriate legal action, or peer pressure (pardon the pun), or =
. . . ?
This is a different circumstance than either accidental or deliberate use o=
f an already-assigned and -utilized ASN; has this situation occurred in the=
past, and if so, how was it resolved? If the situation isn't resolved in =
a timely manner, is the ASN in question considered 'poisoned' until a resol=
ution is attained, and the next available ASN which isn't being utilized in=
a rogue fashion issued in its place?
Apologies if this is a naive question; I've not run into this particular ci=
rcumstance before, nor have I found any reference to it in any of the vario=
us list archives. I do believe that it may become a bit more common, given=
some of the confusion and drama regarding the operationalization of 4-byte=
ASNs.
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