[146636] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: economic value of low AS numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Thu Nov 17 13:26:51 2011
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:26:31 +0200
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>,
Keegan Holley <keegan.holley@sungard.com>
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <F90F1725-3115-4918-A5BE-4BD82B17DD00@virtualized.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
At 10:21 17/11/2011 -0800, David Conrad wrote:
>On Nov 17, 2011, at 8:16 AM, Keegan Holley wrote:
> > Besides standing at the water cooler at 1:23PM on 12/3 telling AS123 jokes
> > I'm not sure a particular AS number has any relevance or any monetary value
> > unless there is scarcity.
>
>You are discounting (pun intended) vanity and marketing. I am no longer
>surprised at what people will be willing to pay (sometimes astonishing
>amounts of) money for.
AS-envy.
-Hank
