economic value of low AS numbers

Robert Bonomi bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com
Thu Nov 17 21:39:00 UTC 2011


> From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi.com at nanog.org  Thu Nov 17 14:53:57 2011
> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:52:33 -0500 (EST)
> From: Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com>
> To: NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
> Subject: Re: economic value of low AS numbers
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Dave Hart" <davehart at gmail.com>
>
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 19:08, David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org>
>> wrote:
>> > whois -h whois.arin.net 42
>> 
>> RFC 943:
>> 
>> 42 THINK-AS [BJN1]
>> 
>> [BJN1] Bruce Nemnich TMC BJN at MIT-MC.ARPA
>> 
>> I have no idea which registry was maintaining AS number registrations
>> when AS42 changed hands. I suppose it's possible the current
>> registrant acquired or merged with whatever entity THINK refers to,
>> but I doubt it, so it seems likely at least at one time transfers were
>> reflected in updated registrations.
>
> I'd be shocked, shocked I tell... oh, yes; put the money over here please.
>
> Shocked, I tell you, if that wasn't Thinking Machines Corp., which was 
> formed by MIT grads, as I remember it.
>
> The real question is whether it was issued after HHGTTG.

I think it was abaout the time they clustered a group of nine 6-node machines.






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