IPV6 renumbering painless?

Fri Nov 19 17:45:36 UTC 2004

Any org viewing ASNs as a scarce resource is wasting money keeping ASNs.
Any org that financially broken will probably not continue to pay it's
bills in the long run.

I believe these are the exception and not the rule.  Like I said, the
long-term answer to this is 32bit ASNs.  I don't think hoarding will account
for a significant portion of the ASN space in the long run.

Owen

--On Friday, November 19, 2004 6:48 AM -0600 "J.A. Terranson" 
<alif.terranson at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:28:55 +0100, Jeroen Massar <jeroen at unfix.org>
> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 08:18 +0100, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote:
>>
>>
>> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> > Hash: SHA1
>> >
>> >
>> > On 2004-11-16, at 02.24, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> >
>> > > ASNs issued today are subject to annual renewal.  While this is a
>> > > small charge and doesn't go up based on the number of ASNs, so, not
>> > > 100% effective at reclaiming all unused resources, it does, at least,
>> > > reclaim resources in use by defunct organizations that are no longer
>> > > paying the maintenance for them.
>
> Yes, but what about the (dozens, hundreds?) of entities that are
> hoarding (and renewing) ASNs?  These unused resources are gone forever
> - since they are seen as a scarce resource, they are kept artificially
> alive (even though the orgs know full well there is neither a use nor
> a justification for them).
>
>
> //Alif

-- 
If it wasn't crypto-signed, it probably didn't come from me.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 186 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/attachments/20041119/c1200cd1/attachment.sig>