> 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.
sounds a lot like IPv4 space, eh? > 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 the assigning LIR and after 3 months - just reclaim it. because property is unused publicly does not affect the rights of its owner(s). otherwise old car collector wannabes could have a heyday. perhaps the world would be a better place if we spent less energy on net vigilanteism and more on moving to IPv6 and 4-byte AS numbers. randy
