[57736] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Low AS - Number
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike (meuon) Harrison)
Mon Apr 21 12:25:33 2003
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:31:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mike (meuon) Harrison" <meuon@highertech.net>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: Dwight Ringdahl <dwightringdahl@yahoo.com>,
"Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030421161454.GL41027@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Nonsense. One of the first things new/large companies do is buy someone
> with a low ASN and take it over. Look at QWest, Verio, etc. In fact,
> pretty much the only exception to this rule is Cogent, who is still using
> 16631 instead of 174 or 4006.
Aww. come on.. do they buy them because of a low ASN?
Or because they are looking for a core of experienced
people and some physical assets and customers worth acquiring
and many of them just happen to have a low ASN.
