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Re: Origin ASN seen vs Origin ASN in Whois Records Report?
From: Joe Abley <jabley () hopcount ca>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:14:03 -0500
On 2008-11-24, at 13:10, Heather Schiller wrote:
Joe Abley wrote:On 23 Nov 2008, at 21:17, Stephen Sprunk wrote:Presumably it's from the "Origin AS" field in WHOIS:Ah, thanks (and also thanks to others who pointed that out off-list).That seems like a weird anachronism, to be honest. Perhaps it's only because nobody has ever tried to use it for anything that there's never been any reason for the ARIN community to propose that the collection of such information be stopped.JoeThe policy is relatively new..
Yep, thanks to you and the others who pointed that out privately.I think it's of limited utility, but this is not a policy list so I'm very happy to keep further reflections on that to myself :-)
Joe
Current thread:
- Origin ASN seen vs Origin ASN in Whois Records Report? Heather Schiller (Nov 19)
- Re: Origin ASN seen vs Origin ASN in Whois Records Report? Bill Woodcock (Nov 19)
- Re: Origin ASN seen vs Origin ASN in Whois Records Report? Bill Woodcock (Nov 21)
- Re: Origin ASN seen vs Origin ASN in Whois Records Report? Bill Woodcock (Nov 21)
- Re: Origin ASN seen vs Origin ASN in Whois Records Report? Joe Abley (Nov 23)
- Re: Origin ASN seen vs Origin ASN in Whois Records Report? Stephen Sprunk (Nov 23)
- Re: Origin ASN seen vs Origin ASN in Whois Records Report? Joe Abley (Nov 23)
- Re: Origin ASN seen vs Origin ASN in Whois Records Report? Heather Schiller (Nov 24)
- Re: Origin ASN seen vs Origin ASN in Whois Records Report? Joe Abley (Nov 24)
- Re: Origin ASN seen vs Origin ASN in Whois Records Report? Stephen Sprunk (Nov 23)