[146639] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: economic value of low AS numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keegan Holley)
Thu Nov 17 13:57:31 2011
In-Reply-To: <F90F1725-3115-4918-A5BE-4BD82B17DD00@virtualized.org>
From: Keegan Holley <keegan.holley@sungard.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:55:46 -0500
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
2011/11/17 David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
> 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.
>
> I suppose I can't argue with that, but anyone technical enough to know
what an AS is should know better. Also, would it really count? What if I
opened a small ISP in some carrier hotel and paid 1000 bucks for AS 1. I'm
not sure I'd want to sign a contract with someone dumb enough to think I
was the first company on the internet.
