[140509] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: coprorations using BGP for advertising prefixes in mid-1990s
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian Kim)
Thu May 12 16:35:31 2011
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 16:34:42 -0400
From: Dorian Kim <dorian@blackrose.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <18828.1305231719@localhost>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 04:21:59PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 12 May 2011 14:53:53 CDT, Michael Sabino said:
> > If you are a big corporation, and it is 1995, how likely is it that you'll
> > utilize bgp for advertising your address space to the internet?
>
> Well, we got AS1312 sometime before 1996 (the *last changed* timestamp is
> 19960207), that sort of implies that 1311 other organizations were grabbing AS
> numbers before that. And since an AS number has no real use for anything other
> than BGP, that implies some 1,300 organizations doing BGP in the 1995
> timeframe.
The actual number would be considerably smaller as there were large
(for some definition of large) block assignments of ASNs <~1000 or so
to various academic networking entities such as NSFNet and regional
networks as well as other Federal/Military networking organisations.
-dorian
