At 12:40 PM 18-03-09 -0700, goemon@anime.net wrote:
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
It's a bit dated now, but the RIPE report, ASN MIA, sounds like what you're looking for... www.apnic.net/meetings/21/docs/sigs/routing/routing-pres-uijterwaal-asn-mia.ppt
When I look at this more recently, the conclusion still seems to be valid: we'll run out of 16 bit ASN's somewhere in 2011 to 2013. There are a lot of unused ASN's out there. Recovering them will postpone the problem by a few years but it won't solve it. The basic problem with recovery is how to decide if an ASN is really no longer used/needed. There is (still) no mechanism to do this. Henk Why not go after low lying fruit first? If an ASN was assigned years ago and hasn't appeared in the RIB for the past year that ASN should be reclaimed. Send warning emails to the registered contacts as well as to
At 08:18 AM 18-03-09 +0100, Henk Uijterwaal wrote: the assigning LIR and after 3 months - just reclaim it.
How about just nailing everyone who has invalid contact info? That would certainly be incentive to get it updated. Nothing else seems to work.
-Dan
How about making it financially worth it? RIRs charge for resources - like IPs and ASNs: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/charging2009.html 1 ASN = /21 in money terms. 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? -Hank