Redundant AS's

Fri Mar 20 08:44:21 UTC 2009

* Hank Nussbacher:

> It takes me about 3-5 hours of work to track down and get an old
> unused ASN to be deallocated.  How about updating the 2010 charging
> model so that LIRs that return ASNs are compensated?

I don't think this is a good way of using RIR funds.  Why should the
old guys receive even more special treatment?  RIPE's charging scheme
already discriminates heavily against newcomers.