[57748] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Low AS - Number
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Barak)
Mon Apr 21 13:46:22 2003
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:45:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.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: <20030421161454.GL41027@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Another example is AT&T (7018) who purchased CerfNET
(1740), and also have 2386 (and others) for private
use.
-David Barak
--- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:10:34PM -0400, Mike
> (meuon) Harrison wrote:
> >
> > ------- And to get completely off topic.. Why/how
> would you use
> > an ASN for marketing purposes? And should this
> even be considered..
> > except as a tongue in cheek geek thing?
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
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David Barak
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