[146647] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: economic value of low AS numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Roesen)
Thu Nov 17 15:00:47 2011
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:59:37 +0100
From: Daniel Roesen <dr@cluenet.de>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 07:30:17PM +0000, Dave Hart wrote:
> 42 THINK-AS [BJN1]
>
> [BJN1] Bruce Nemnich TMC BJN@MIT-MC.ARPA
>
> I have no idea which registry was maintaining AS number registrations
> when AS42 changed hands. I suppose it's possible the current
> registrant acquired or merged with whatever entity THINK refers to,
"THINK", "TMC" and MIT give strong hints towards Thinking Machines
Corporation, a once-famous vendor of pretty supercomputers. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation
Best regards,
Daniel
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