Redundant AS's
Hank Nussbacher
hank at efes.iucc.ac.il
Fri Mar 20 10:40:15 UTC 2009
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * 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.
I disagree.
Older LIRs have more allocations which compensates for the time factor of
the algorithm. Older allocations need almost no human handling by the RIR
vs a new LIR of a year which has a oodles of tickets that need human
intervention.
-Hank
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