On Sun, May 31, 1998 at 04:39:30PM -0400, Jamie Scheinblum wrote:
The last CIDR report I have in my in-box states there are 3606 AS numbers in the routing table. So, my first question is at what point does ARIN reclaim AS numbers?
(comparison: 2680 last September and 3075 at the beginning of the year)
That's a lot of money Arin rakes in on un-used AS numbers.
I understand that ARIN probably doesn't want to get in the middle of routing policies, but by limiting when you can receive an AS, I don't understand why they couldn't limit when you lose it.
Second Q: How many AS numbers are available in total?
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