[57738] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Low AS - Number
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Mon Apr 21 12:38:13 2003
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:37:33 -0400
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: "Mike (meuon) Harrison" <meuon@highertech.net>
Cc: Dwight Ringdahl <dwightringdahl@yahoo.com>,
"Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0304211229430.22558-100000@mikey.highertech.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:31:35PM -0400, Mike (meuon) Harrison wrote:
> > 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.
Sometimes not, sometimes both. But if they didn't want the low ASN, it'd
be a lot easier to go get a new one than to do all the paperwork for a
transfer. It's an image thing, pure and simple. If people know you buy
your ASN, why not make it a good one.
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