economic value of low AS numbers

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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.

Cheers,
-- jra

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HHGTTG first appeared on the BBC in 1978. Thinking Machines
Corporation was formed in 1982. As far as I can tell the first BGP
RFC is 1105 and was published in 1989.

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Jeffrey Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us> writes:

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Which describes EGP and was published in 1982. EGP does use the
notion of an autonomous system number. When the conversion from EGP
to BGP was made did networks keep the same autonomous system numbers?

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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

From: "Dave Hart" <davehart@gmail.com>

> 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.

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As long as they worked in base-13.

As it happens, Woody owns that ASN now, according to my whois, at least.

Cheers,
-- jra

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AS42 was assigned after publication of RFC 923 (Oct 1984) and no later
than the superceding RFC 943 (April 1985). AS numbers definitely
predate BGP. AS1 was assigned by or before RFC 820 (Jan 1983). EGP
was RFC 827 (Oct 1982). Presumably the development involved informal
assignment of at least test AS numbers.

Cheers,
Dave Hart

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UAE license plate auctions, "1" sold for $14 million

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aJ8EZTdrItjs

Lebanon phone number auction, 71-444444 went for $68,000

http://www.ameinfo.com/207677.html