Why are paper LOAs still used?

Mon Feb 26 19:19:11 UTC 2024

Highly anecdotal, but we’ve always refused to provide them, and they’ve always set it up without an LOA.

YMMV since we negotiate larger contracts, but we’ve only ever been asked maybe twice? Both times they admitted they had no idea why they asked for it, so it just seems like some process they forgot to get rid of.

-Dan 

> On Feb 26, 2024, at 13:59, Seth Mattinen via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org> wrote:
> 
> Why do companies still insist on, or deploy new systems that rely on paper LOA for IP and ASN resources? How can this be considered more trustworthy than RIR based IRR records?
> 
> And I'm not even talking about old companies, I have a situation right now where a VPS provider I'm using will no longer use IRR and only accepts new paper LOAs. In the year 2024. I don't understand how anyone can go backwards like that.
> 
> ~Seth