[57740] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Low AS - Number
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec H. Peterson)
Mon Apr 21 12:43:37 2003
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:40:32 -0600
From: "Alec H. Peterson" <ahp@hilander.com>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>,
"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: <20030421163733.GN41027@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
--On Monday, April 21, 2003 12:37 -0400 Richard A Steenbergen
<ras@e-gerbil.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
Not really. Consider the hassle associated with telling all of the peers
of the network you've acquired to change their ASN.
Alec
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Alec H. Peterson -- ahp@hilander.com
Chief Technology Officer
Catbird Networks, http://www.catbird.com
