From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi.com@nanog.org Thu Nov 17 14:53:57 2011 Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:52:33 -0500 (EST) From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: economic value of low AS numbers
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From: "Dave Hart" <davehart@gmail.com>
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 19:08, David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:
whois -h whois.arin.net 42
RFC 943:
42 THINK-AS [BJN1]
[BJN1] Bruce Nemnich TMC BJN@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.