[17408] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why does Sprint have address filters again?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Sun May 31 20:08:23 1998
Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 18:57:21 -0500
From: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>
To: Jamie Scheinblum <jamie@fast.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4DB4BFFE4768D011954E0000C0815AEDF13C00@fnbdc1.youtools.com>; from Jamie Scheinblum on Sun, May 31, 1998 at 04:39:30PM -0400
On Sun, May 31, 1998 at 04:39:30PM -0400, Jamie Scheinblum wrote:
> The last CIDR report I have in my in-box states there are 3606 AS numbers in
> the routing table. So, my first question is at what point does ARIN reclaim
> AS numbers?
>
> (comparison: 2680 last September and 3075 at the beginning of the year)
>
> That's a lot of money Arin rakes in on un-used AS numbers.
>
> I understand that ARIN probably doesn't want to get in the middle of routing
> policies, but by limiting when you can receive an AS, I don't understand why
> they couldn't limit when you lose it.
>
> Second Q: How many AS numbers are available in total?
Currently an ASN is a 16-bit number.
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