[196274] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 4 or smaller digit ASNs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sat Oct 14 12:53:01 2017
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <1296F0D8-34CD-4C9F-8EF2-82714EDC98CC@beckman.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 23:57:14 -0700
To: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
There are, for better or worse, ASN transfers under NRPM 8.3 in the ARIN =
region. (Personally, I find this silly, but the community came to =
consensus on the matter, so it is what it is).
As such, if you can find someone with a low number ASN who is willing to =
part with it for what you are willing to offer to acquire same, then you =
can transfer it.
Owen
> On Oct 11, 2017, at 10:47 PM, Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org> wrote:
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> James,
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> As far as I know, you can't buy an existing ASN for any amount of =
money. You can buy the company that owns it, but that seems like boiling =
tea with a blowtorch.
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> I sincerely doubt there are unused low-number ASNs, but you could =
always ask ARIN.
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> I'm curious what your client's rationale is for wanting a low ASN. It =
can't be efficiency, since the numbers all take the same number of bits =
ultimately. If they just like small numbers, I'd advise them to forget =
it -- life is too short. If they have a real technical reason that =
nobody has foreseen (or at least I haven't foreseen), I'd love to hear =
it.
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> -mel beckman
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>> On Oct 11, 2017, at 10:01 PM, James Breeden <James@arenalgroup.co> =
wrote:
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>> Hello NANOG...
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>> I have a client interested in picking up a new AS number but they =
really want it to be 3 or 4 digits in length.
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>> Is there a process to request this from ARIN, or doss anyone know of =
unused ASns fitting this that anyone is looking to sell for some quick =
cash?
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>> Thanks!
>> James
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>> Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S7 active, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
