On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 07:54:08PM -0800, Joe Abley <jab...@hopcount.ca> wrote a message of 13 lines which said:
> Are you suggesting that I should be able to block the assignment of > particular ASNs by simply including them in an AS_PATH attribute on > a route I originate, and making sure that route shows up in > route-views? No one suggested a complete, blind and automatic blocking of the assignment. Just a suggestion to RIRs to check if the AS number they are ready to assign is used in an AS path somewhere and, if so, to raise a flag, to assign a physical person on the matter, to investigate, to check the databases, etc. This would have catched the AS 1712 issue.