[146646] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: economic value of low AS numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keegan Holley)
Thu Nov 17 14:36:42 2011
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From: Keegan Holley <keegan.holley@sungard.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:34:48 -0500
To: davehart_gmail_exchange_tee@davehart.net
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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2011/11/17 Dave Hart <davehart@gmail.com>
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 18:55, Keegan Holley <keegan.holley@sungard.com>
> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Did you intend to say the first autonomous system number assigned for
> use on ARPAnet?
>
> Pedantically yours,
>
>
I have to admit I wasn't sure. I know ARPAnet predated BGP and EGP I
believe so I wasn't sure if there were ASN's then.
