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economic value of low AS numbers



On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Robert E. Seastrom <rs at seastrom.com> wrote:
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> Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> writes:
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>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
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>>> The real question is whether it was issued after HHGTTG.
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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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> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc827

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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Jeff Ollie