[17308] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why does Sprint have address filters again?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Fri May 29 00:18:26 1998
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: karl@mcs.net (Karl Denninger)
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 00:07:01 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: john@shutter.net, nanog@merit.edu, arin-council@arin.net
In-Reply-To: <19980528173327.34382@mcs.net> from "Karl Denninger" at May 28, 98 05:33:27 pm
> Yes, and that's for the entirely time-consuming entering your name and a
> number in a database (can you say "default nextval()").
>
> One has to wonder just where the authority for THAT one comes from.
>
> Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin
As a general idea, I don't have a problem with having some resistor
to demand for AS numbers, but $500 probably isn't much of a resistor.
But clearly it can take $100 or $200 of time to evaluate a request,
trace topology, and/or verify with the future upstreams the validity.
Avi
