[127588] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Inquiries to Acquire IPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sat Jul 3 17:02:40 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100703204255.GA20122@besserwisser.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 13:57:52 -0700
To: Mans Nilsson <mansaxel@besserwisser.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Vanity ASNs are a horrible idea, IMHO... Unless you want WIPO to come in =
and start
applying UDRP to IP addresses and ASNs, I suggest this be avoided.
Owen
On Jul 3, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Mans Nilsson wrote:
> Subject: RE: Inquiries to Acquire IPs Date: Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at =
04:40:07PM -0500 Quoting Aaron Wendel (aaron@wholesaleinternet.net):
>> I sent an inquiry in to ARIN yesterday for a certain ASN that was =
available
>> and was told that management won't allow them to issue requested =
numbers. :(
>=20
> RIPE does, correctly prodded ;-)=20
>=20
> % Information related to 'AS31337'
>=20
> aut-num: AS31337
> as-name: ELEET-AS
> descr: ELEET Network
> descr: Location: Sweden
>=20
> (Story is, IIRC, that adjacent number was assigned initially, but the
> confirmation mail was answered with "Can I have 31337 instead?" which=20=
> in turn was granted. )
>=20
> --=20
> M=E5ns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina
> MN-1334-RIPE +46 705 989668
> Those aren't WINOS -- that's my JUGGLER, my AERIALIST, my SWORD
> SWALLOWER, and my LATEX NOVELTY SUPPLIER!!
