Why are paper LOAs still used?

Tue Feb 27 02:25:37 UTC 2024

We just switched over to IRR routing with Cogent, it is available.  It's 
just not on by default.

Best Regards,

Jason

On 2/26/24 3:14 PM, Aaron Wendel wrote:
> I don't have any examples of anyone still using paper LOAs except for 
> Cogent.
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> Aaron
>
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> On 2/26/2024 12:57 PM, Seth Mattinen via NANOG 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
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